Love opens
courage steps
harm threatens
danger waits.
Love opens
timid stays
winds blow
through and through.
Unlove
stands in the way that it does;
preying on timid
obstructing, obscuring,
swirling, gusting.
Love
moves the way that it can;
creating chances
opening options
softening, seasoning.
Love opens
minds and hearts,
doors and windows.
Clearing channels of communication
finding its way.
Love opens
onto a way
of saying
what needs saying.
Love builds
by invisible hands
which craft and construct,
mend and heal.
Love dreams --
real as any
hard fact so we wait,
we hope.
Love imagines
what can happen
when soul by soul
together we pray.
Where unlove
shouts, "Make way!"
Love makes a way
where there was no way
so good can go about its business
turning knobs and
carrying brides across
thresholds.
Behold
There's a space for the love of God
to fill me when I open up;
empty lungs want air
parched mouth wants drink
panging stomach wants food
the seeking soul opens for sustenance,
moment by moment.
Me me Me me Me me
the baby birds cry,
asserting themselves.
fill me. feed me. pick me.
Love does
