We Believe Love

We believe Love when held in her embrace When Love's arms envelop us Surround us And her heartbeat pounds heavy against our soul But this is not truly Love. Love is when she releases us From her joyous light Her bliss Her certainty, her security. We feel loved within Love's embrace And upon release from that embrace When she releases us to live life The horrors, the agony of living This is when we ARE loved. Love's sweetest blessing is her embrace But her truest is when she releases us to live. When we despair from that release When we grieve Love's loss This is when we are most truly loved. For while Hatred seeks to grab at us, to rob, a thief of painful passion, And Jealousy seeks to enslave us through a shackled heart, Only Love seeks our freedom. Therefore, she releases us to Live. Love's greatest joy Our successful Living Is borne within moments of misery Our greatest loss. Imagine the true tragedy of life If you grieve so Over a single beloved. Your mother, or father, Or sister, brother, or lover. Released from Love's embrace For days, weeks, Yeah, even months and years, We wail their loss. One. Loss. But for the dying... All at once they must give up their fathers, brothers, and lovers, Husbands, wives, children and mothers. They are allowed but a single breath to let go. To show true Love and release all from embrace. Most difficultly, to release themselves, Their Dreams, Passions both joy and pain, Of what was and might've been To walk through a moment of ultimate misery And thereby Love purely as Life's gift.