Wednesday, February 14, 2007

on Valentine's Day

Don’t get me flowers for this one day.
Chocolates, champagne - I love them both but they just won’t do.
What I want is LOVE -
not romance or flirtation but that love that matters.

Because it matters if I love
or not.
It matters if you love
or not.
I have to believe it makes a difference
whether we love
or not.
Otherwise, why love?

Unconditional. Unprovoked.
Love.
It is yours at your birth.
It is all the universe can endow.
It is all we have to offer.
What we make of it is our human gift, or our failing?
Do we make a bond of it? Or a war?
Do we use it to measure who is lacking, who is gifted?

Love is not a weapon.
Love is a force
Untamed wild
And possible.

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