LOVE & LOVE.

LOVE AND LOVING.

Love God even if you think
He doesn’t exist or is dead
Or is a figment of somebody’s
Head. Love Jesus Christ Son

Of God crucified hammered
To a cross. Love the Virgin
Mary weeping in a chapel.
Love the fat woman on the bus

Who occupies two seats who
Is dying of cancer. Love the
Man who sells matches with
One lung. Love the child who

Dies of neglect. Love the boy
Who wets his bed. Love the girl
Who was raped and abused.
Love the woman whose beauty

Has gone. Love the old man
Injured by memory. Love the
Mother whose child has died.
Love the father who is broken

By the death of his wife. Love
The wife whose husband has
Fled and sleeps with another.
Love the angel who touches

Your brow. Love the child
Whose parents have died.
Love the nurse who washes
The dead. Love the mother

Who cares and heals and
Kisses goodnight. Love the
Smell of flowers. Love the
Fine wines. Love the chant

Of monks and nuns. Love
The w***e who has sex no
More. Love the loveless.
Love those who love but

Are not loved in return.
Love the music of Bach
And Led Zeppelin. Love
The poetry of Keats and

Bukowski. Love the touch
Of the morning light. Love
The kiss of your lover’s lips.
Love the art of Van Gogh and

Degas and Klimt and Picasso.
Love those have died for a good
Cause. Love those who refused
To fight in a senseless war. Love

Those who died in a senseless war.
Love loving. Love those who love
You. Love those who do not. Love
The act of loving. Love love itself.