Love ?

If you just want to love me from a distance

To keep your heart safe

What does that say of love

Is it not an open conduit that flows

Do I choose to love you

Or am I impelled?

The feeling of love that I have

Is it conditional upon the receipt

Only of the safe and good

What happens when trouble and strife come

And I feel that everything I long to feel and touch and give

Seems so very far from my control

Then what happens to love?

Shakespeare said

Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds

Or bends with the remover to remove

That looks on tempests and is never shaken

So when I feel this tempest rage

Where does my love go

And what does my response say of my love?

That I keep a heart open to love

Even in the midst of hell fire

Surely that commitment to love

Takes the strongest heart and mind

One’s heart opens to being pierced to bleed

And with the bleeding know

What it truely means to love

Another soul both one with mine

And separate to my own