To Love...and Be Loved

To love

Then be loved in return

Is all I humbly ask

But God, You know my heart

So God,

Please fit me for this task

To love

And be loved in return

Is more than I deserve

But oh, it is life’s sweetest joy

Upon

This troubled earth

To love

And be loved in return

Is such a kind reward

Yet all that I can think

To say

Is thank-you, thank-you Lord

© Janet Martin