Come,
Buy a
Life loving
heart.
If you seek profit or
to prove your righteousness,
Go on, I have nothing.
But if happiness is what you seek,
There is no faster path
Than loving Life.
If logic is your friend,
Just think: you didn’t make your hands,
You didn’t make your eyes,
Your didn’t make your brain,
You didn’t make your tongue,
You didn’t make your soul, your heart, your blood,
You didn’t make the hard steady earth beneath your feet
You didn’t make the sun or the moon, or the starry sky
You didn’t make nature,
You didn’t make your children,
You didn’t even make your work,
(your hands and eyes and brain did,
which you did not make).
And yet there are no words of how loved you are.
But if feeling is your friend,
Just feel how empty space fills with love
When two children kiss.
Feel how you bloom
When you are home,
And how strangers shake hands
When you forgive,
How wounds heal
When you say “I love you”.
Andreea Garden, October 2017
Image by SHTTEFAN from Unsplash
