CHOOSING A NEW VOCATION: LOVE
I will tell you a few words on love
love is not an emotion nor is it a feeling
it is not how you react based on how your day is going
or how many people smiled at you on your way to work
it has nothing to do with how happy or sad you are
how much you laugh cry sing or
get laughed at or cried with or sang to no it is none of these
this non-emotive love depends itself on nothing
that you can touch with your hands or see with your eyes
loving is true when it hurts you back because its unfair
as unjust love is the only kind that exists
since there is no pride in love there is no expectation
for it to turn around and love you back
for it to say well done good and faithful and
give you a medal with a trophy and a hug with a kiss
love is what you do with your time and it must
be accompanied with action surrounded with intention
rooted in patience and kindness
akin to submitting submission without apprehension
love is a man denying his instinct to give up when the
going gets tough or the same old gets old
it is a bondservant working so his master can have more
when we try to bring love into politics that is when
we emasculate it of its heart which is nonsensical as
there is no love without the organ which gives it life
therefore love is not dying for what you believe in
but staying alive for what is noble and true and right
despite the pain of a breaking back bent over in on itself
because surely the man who stumbles forty times over
practices love better than he who walks straight in line
with a wife by his side with curled lips for an entire life
love is the only key to joy that you will ever find
no matter what height you have found from feelings
however when you have scaled that summit then jump right off
pummel till you lose the hope of surviving the fall
and when those close seem to fade from view
and they start to fall right along with you
love enough not to let them go but
love enough to let them know
that you are falling for them.