I love my friends. ….friends from every corner of life perspectives and persuasion. Each person gives me great joy, and I could not live without them. They are God given gifts to me…. even if they don’t believe there is a Gift Giver. Precious all….each wonderfully made.
I post this poem in an effort to make sense of all of the “noise“in the world fracas. There is no guile in any word of it. Please don’t take this as an invitation to share political beliefs. That is not the purpose of this post.
I would like to qualify the word “love” to which I refer in the following poem.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
WHAT LOVE CAN DO
In the fields of civic rabble
War has broken friendship ties
Truth, whose truth, the whipping question
Battles rage for cause and rights
Individuation mounting
Hating clouds form hanging rope
Mortal wisdom, helpless midwife
Birthing yet more stillborn hope
Children mimic spurious notions
Faulty syllogistic ruse
Change becomes a weakened whimper
Now let’s see what Love can do
Souls from towers, backwood hollers
Many poised to swing the sword
Some use angry poet’s skill with
Wounding demonizing words
Tightly holding to perfection
Ancient bane to what is good
Will we ever come together
Know respect that’s understood
See how tribalist increasing
Separate us more and more
How does one restore a oneness
Never truly one before
Eloquence and worlds of insight
Cannot change the resolute
Attitudes the only locksmith
Now let’s see what Love can do
Now let’s see what Love can do
A poem by Greg Nelson
Poppie’s Hallel
Ooooo. “How does one restore a oneness never truly one before…”. Devastating perfect line. Amazing, Greg. Thank you.
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Thank you for this poem. Let us see what love can do!!
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