With February being the month of Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share a love poem that I wrote. There is a love that runs much deeper than the stuffed bears and heart-shaped boxes that fill the store aisles at this time. It is a love that calls to us and invites us to live and love in a deeper, profounder way. Have you answered the call?

Person of Love

Love is a person

whispering in your ear, but do you hear the word he’s spoken?

Do you strain for the sound of his voice to learn the message he bears?

 

Love is a person

blind without his eyes,

clueless as to sight,

but sees a vision with his heart full of beauty and delight

 

Love is a person

with tenderness in his touch

grasping the deepest pain

with fingers of compassion that seek to understand

 

Love is a person that changes empty lives

giving meaning to every moment

Love hides from the world’s vain glory

cares not for attention

but his greatest happiness finds

in the service of affection

 

Love is a person

lonely in his perfection

betrayed and weeping in anguish

familiar with rejection

as he searches for a friend

 

Love offers his hand in friendship

to all who seek to know

how precious a life can truly be

when willing to let go

of the chains that bind our hearts and souls

in fits of doubt and fear

 

Now, quiet!

Listen in earnest,

on your ear love’s voice shall fall,

time to make your decision:

how will you answer his call?