Love: Always Knowing, Always Learning

On and On and On...

Love is the bright match flame

The smile that becomes a belly laugh

Out loud truth spoken honestly

The peace that spreads to your fingertips

Is love

Love is the underfoot crunch of fresh snow

A warm, hazy afternoon, languid and soft

Filling your senses with someone else

The belief that it conquers all

Is love

Love is the knife edge, becoming words, becoming tears

Battling to win, yet not lose the reflection of your heart in their eyes

Embraces that lead to I’m sorry, let’s start again, slowly

The clean dawning of each day, a new chance to do it well

Is love

Love is hanging on fiercely and letting go with care

Dark nights infused with points of the brightest light

Selflessness letting you step in their footprints

The song that sings you both to dance

Is love

Love is William’s fixed mark, his ship guiding star, born eternal

The brand that burns, marking the bone, the balm that heals

Trying and failing, trying again and again so never failing

Our compass, the place we rest our full and weary hearts, our salvation

Is love