Love With Benefits

Could you love an old white redneck with HIV, inhaling too much medicine? Could you love him if he were able to listen without judging, but commiserating, curious about nuances, finding dark humor transcending rumors of ego’s timorous tumors and climatic anthro-terrifying tremblers? Could you love a sad house-bound poet, with too many kids of vulnerable colors, multiculturally married but neurodiversely separated, haunted by recurring adoption-denied nightmares? Abandonment allows suffocation, nutritional neglect, dislocation drowning embryonic surf, tidal pools of loneliness propelling salty dark dissonant compassions, emotive compost organically fueling preoccupations toward resurfacing light. Could you love him if he could know what you feel, and guess why and wonder how, and hope when, and care where we might want to hear and feel and dance and breathe this sacred co-opera again? Could you love erotic simplicity if delivered with truer exotic festivity? Could you love integrity, us becoming right synergy here and now? Could we sacred love exchanging secularized anger management for musing compassion's proactive interactive interdependent inter-reconnecting inter-re-ligious EarthTribe opportunities? Could you love these neurodiverse neuro-sexsensory ones you are already miraculously singing and dancing within without?