Thursday Thoughts on Love

Accusation, keeping score

Fuels a sad and endless war

Forgiveness and faith will prove

The enduring fort of love

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Give and take

Take and give

Live and love

Love and live!

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I blush at the thought

Of writing

A Love Poem

Because it is hard

And I wish it weren’t

So tattered

And splattered

…our Postcard

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Red is the color of love, my love

Red hearts, red wine, red rose

Red hands and feet nailed to a tree

Where red redemption flows

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Wasted; those wishes

Shaped but never shared

Thought-script is futile

If left un-bared

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Bear with compassion

Love’s high and its low

For it is simply

By God’s grace we go

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Double-edged voice

Love’s experience

Offers both ammunition

And benevolence

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What is this thing we can never give too much of

or ever get enough?

Ah yes, it can only be one thing;

Love

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 It is nothing to part

With the flesh-desire

Of things

Clutched in our grasp

It is everything when the heart

Is on holy-fire

And sings

A love song fingers cannot clasp

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Everything is nothing

And never enough

If we choose life’s pilferage

Over Love

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Love bears all things

Believes all things

It hopes all things

Endures

Ah, to walk side by side

In love

Our happiness

Secures

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We ought to love

As Christ loved us

In all things

Love is Chief

We cannot love

As Christ loved us

Yet live in

Unbelief

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Love is a life-long journey we climb

Borne not in ages

But one

Step

At

A

Time

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We choose red wine, sweet chocolate, a rose
Candle-light dinner, soft music, nice clothes
We choose things of comfort, delightful and new
 In our best efforts to say, ‘I love you’

He chose a crown made of thorns, not the rose
Some nails and a cross are the symbols He chose

Clad in His blood, pierced, suffering, He cried
“Father, forgive them,” then... He died

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There is a part of me

That moves to thought-command

Its practical decree

Flows from my head to hand

But oh, the vexing bliss

Of passion's darling part

I can’t control the kiss

That re-directs my heart

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Learn this lesson

And learn it well

To love is Heaven

To lust is hell

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Lust takes

Love gives

Lust lies

Love is truth

Lust desires

Love serves

Lust wounds

Love heals

Lust craves

Love fulfills

Lust preys

Love prays

Lust flatters

Love praises

Lust deceives

Love abides

Lust demands

Love is patient

Lust shackles

Love frees

Lust is weakness

Love is strength

Lust dies

Love lives!

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Sometimes love is spoken most deeply

Not by what we say

but what we could say

...and didn't

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Sigh...

I think it will take a lifetime

Oh, how can it be?

Love, though old as Adam

Is still a Mystery

Have a Love-ly Day!

© Janet Martin