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Saturday, February 13, 2021

Let's Not Keep Love A Secret



The worst secret to keep
is our struggles in love!
'Because love is the fight of all fights, all right'!!
And its success depends on you and me
 has hit closer to home in the past year than ever before
Making me wonder perhaps if we should be better acquainted

Photo below taken a year ago when life was still 'normal'

(this would be our annual getaway weekend)

I will be the first to admit I/Jim and I could plaster a massive wall with mistakes made,
and mementos of 'failure' BUT we commit to never quit forgiving each other
to keep our marriage vows and remain faithful to the finish!

Maybe all women should be asking this poem of our Lifelong-Love-to-be



Love flows like fire in a pen 
It tugs heartstrings with mute amen 
Where farewell often steals the show 
And love must learn how to let go 
While ever honing the fine art 
Of keeping motive pure in heart 

Love is more than ‘my happiness’ 
Or a costume worn to impress 
Love suffers much and bears in mind 
That to be strong love must be kind 
It does not harbour for itself 
Some idol on a secret shelf 

Love is a weapon and a shield 
A mountain and an open field 
It weathers, tethers and equips 
With iron will, and gentle lips 
And in its sacred ties that bind 
We leave words like ‘my, me’ behind 

Love intertwines with its cohort 
For love is not a solo-sport 
But cleaves to its betrothed ally 
To keep vigil with watchful eye 
For when love lets its guard grow lax 
It invites enemy attacks 

Love seems to be the favoured prey 
Of dreams and lies and cunning sway 
Then our greatest goal should be 
To protect it ferociously 
And defend love’s holy ought 
Lest we fail it, for love does not 

Love is far more than meets the gaze 
Of those who wonder at its ways 
Love is a front-line, prayer-immersed 
The aftermath of ‘others first’ 
It does not covet, does not steal 
It does not trust the dust of ‘feel’ 

Love is a God-begotten tryst 
Without Him, love does not exist 
For God is love, in Him we trust 
All else is hate’s accomplice; lust 
And whether we believe or not 
All who have loved have witnessed God 

Love never fails; lust desecrates 
What havoc Selfish Yes creates 
When it is seduced by the lies 
That masquerade as love’s disguise 
Behooving us to reassess 
Who and what brings True Happiness 

Darling, let’s commit to the fight 
For This is what love is, all right 
White knuckled grit to hold on so 
While we submit to letting go
Of all that does not benefit 
Love’s long and short and whole of it 

Love has no trophy wall or shelf 
It never succeeds by itself 
But exceeds all else, above all 
Though its accolades may seem small 
When weighed with the success Fame hails 
Where love commits, love never fails 

Love, let it be our sole/soul intent 
Let it be the humble cement 
That binds the mason-work of days 
With devoted, trustworthy ways 
So that when death our last breath drains 
The legacy of love remains 

© Janet Martin 

In this community, recently Death has drained so many, suddenly
of Last Breath, leaving behind Love/life's permanent legacy
which is why, in these very troubled times
 I am choosing this simple song by Don Williams to remind us
of what really matters!






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