![]() About Love and Pain by Luis GabrielA Poem by Luis Gabriel![]() A sestina, written for a class but definitely from the soul.![]()
Stand for what you believe and be beat down Stand for what you say, be tried and found What will you do when it all falls to the ground What will you do when no light and no sound Is enough to pull you to your feet When you are in pain’s grip and in love’s heat
Crazily enough we don’t understand love’s heat Believing it can be found, we search for it deep down It courses through us steadily, from our head to our feet Eluding us like our shadows, not to be found It hides behind the right time, quiet making no sound Waiting to trip us up and watch us fall to the ground
Only when our pride is smashed against the ground, Then we can see the bright golden fire of love’s heat Our silent paranoia’s will be murdered without a sound Constant pre-conceived judgements will be smashed down, That is when our endurance will be tried and found Weak or perhaps strong, pounding like running feet
Heart’s pounding and beating in time with the runner’s feet We will all have to run endurance’s race, on love’s ground For that is love’s test, putting man through fire to be found To be either gold or lead, meeting gently the fire of love’s heat Found deep deep in the waters of souls, deep down Deep in these waters where, fire can exist, but not the clamor of sound
Silence claps your wrist saying, “shhh, not the clamor of sound” Here silence asks the question “can a runner run with chained up feet” Then let go of them deep deep in the water of souls, deep down For here not dirt but life is the substance of the testing grounds Here where our own personal worlds are formed, alive with that heat Here where love is proven and necessity forces strength to be found
But then the question: What if some shadows don’t want to be found? What if there is no place, golden with silence and barren with sound? What if it is an illusion alluding to our foolishness, this love’s heat? What if there is no race to be run by this runner’s feet? What if the pain suffered in this life is no testing ground? What if we stand for what we believe will we be beat down?
So what if we are beat down, who knows what wants to be found Have you grown in life’s testing grounds, if you have don’t protest, no sound Get up and rise to your feet, for you already know the truth of love’s heat © 2008 Luis Gabriel |
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Added on December 9, 2008 Author
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