the greatest of these

The frustrating thing about being

in this space place and time, I’m seeing

Is feeling offbeat missing words to the rhyme

or reason. but no matter the season

I will always believe in

the depth, height, and width of love.

Because it conquers all, it forgives much

and never loses touch

of the divinity of humanity.

Storge, philia*, eros, and agape

and one day it will roll and rock me.

On its waves I will drift

with a lover who is willing

to do the work it takes for healing

the trauma from the drama

of this human experience

and to realize that it was all an experiment.

The variables of fear and the constant of love,

the dark night of the soul,

the whole from which we’ve dug,

out of and into a new reality

where we are we and can simply just be.

Let’s hold hands and proceed on this journey.

Who knows how much time we have?

Let us eat, drink and be glad.

Surpass the frivolities of all the animosity.

Bypass the petty disputes of blind men seeking an excuse,

to do the harm they do without remorse and vain pursuits.

Excuse me,

can we have this dance?

Get our backs up off the wall and write our own romance?

One that will never be believed

and when they finally look up to see

abundance will be our receipts.

We’ve cashed out.

So pack light my love

we know this is enough

Because love conquers all,

we are too lifted to ever fall.

*philia is one of the four ancient Greek words for love: philia, storge, agape and eros. In Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, philia is usually translated as “friendship” or affection. The complete opposite is called a phobia.

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