Hello guys!
So for today's post we're blessed to have a piece by my friend Keziah Barnes. She's honestly an amazing poet and I'm so glad she agreed to do this. Her poem today is centred around this month's theme of love. I hope you guys enjoy it as much as I do.
Love is a word so misused
And "i love you" are words so easy to say
But it is also so misunderstood
And many of us have a wrong picture of
What love is
Cause what we experience
Is based on feelings and happiness and the number of butterflies in our belly.
But love is not a feeling
It is not how popular you are in school
How many roses you receive on Valentine's day
How many likes you get on your posts
Love is not holding hands and giving hugs to strangers
It is not cheesy letters and serenades
It is not sunsets and diamond rings
Love cannot be found in man-made things
All those things are bound to disappear
But real love is everlasting.
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is beautiful
Love is divine
Love is a gift for all humankind
A gift that cannot be described
With human words
Love is mysterious and full of surprise
Love is in the smiles of babies in the morning
Concealed in the smell of a cup of coffee
Love is cheering at your brother's football matches
And staying up late for your best friend
Love is favourite songs
And inside jokes that only you and your mate can understand
Love is crying and not being ashamed of your tears
Remembering birthdays from a thousand years
Love is whole and it never fails
It keeps its promises and perseveres till the end
It doesn't look for mistakes and flaws
It sees beauty in everything and in all
It's able to climb mountains and swim entire oceans
Just to see your face and ask how you are
It doesn't cause wounds but it honors your scars
It doesn't own anything but it's ready to give you everything
And like Sun
It is always there
Even when you can't see it
Human love can come and go
But real love stays
because real love is eternal.
Love never goes away.
Love is patient
Love is kind
And Jesus
Is love's name.
