Love is patient
Waiting for a comfortable time
Allowing the heart to
Open slowly like a butterfly
Struggling from the cocoon
Love is kind
Apologizing when needed
Gently reproving, understanding
Guarding each others dignity
Holding each other up
Love is not jealous
Of time devoted to other
Areas of lives already formed
Of love for others
That comes from being wanted
Love does not brag
About the gifts given by the lover
Love is not arrogant
And feels blessed and humbled
By acceptance scars and all
Love does not act unbecomingly
Even when hurt, and bleeding
Real love knows that just because someone
Else behaves badly, it is not permission
To behave badly in return
Love does not seek it’s own
But in putting the needs and desires
Of loved one first, paradoxically
Has it’s own needs met
Until the cup is overflowing
Love is not provoked and does not take
Into account wrong suffered.
It knows that people make mistakes
And that the same forgiveness we ask of others
We must also be willing to grant
Love lets go the tethers of wrongs and debts
Understanding that frailties beset all of us
And that truly loving means accepting those shortcomings
And loving someone because of their humanity.
Love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices in the truth
Even when the truth is hard to bear
Even when vengence seems the sweeter path
Love knows that our commission
Asks us to be responsible to one another
Love bears all things
Distance that seems to far, fear that threatens to overtake the heart,
Anger for wrongs done years ago,
Even tales about scars and lovers that hurt
Each time they are recounted
Love believes all things
It believes in the possibility
That someone who has been cast off
Can become the cornerstone
Of another life, another love
Love endures all things
Frail aging bodies, deaths, losses
Disappointments, joys and ecstasies
It endures through time even
Through the veil of the grave, to eternity
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