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How Do We Love One Another?

Love Is Survival

How do we as full grown adults, getting along
As we do, exude love as if we were children?
It would seem that they’re our teachers in this regard.
As we deal with life’s contrast we can be too hard
On ourselves and with others. Every now and then,
We encounter those whose love is steady and strong.

They are in every way like rivers as they stream.
As they exude love naturally people know
That they’re true to their nature. They live not a lie
In how they affect others. They don’t have to try
To love freely. Perhaps they are sent here to show
To the world what true love is. It’s not a fake dream.

They may give away things at the drop of a hat
Just because others need them, but nature abhors
Any vacuum it senses. They only get more
Of what they give away. They are loath to ignore
Anyone who is in need. They see not as chores
Acts of kindness. This sick world needs people like that.

We cannot imitate this thing. There is no way
To receive it, but it is also essential
That we have it if we are to live peacefully.
Does it come by divine grace to us directly?
With all of our shortcomings there is potential
For survival, and life can be a cabaret.

How Do We Love One Another?

It All Begins With Self

Is the nature of love that which can be explained
By a few lines of verbal mechanical parts?
If I gave it a good try I would not succeed.
Any effort applied to it would but impede
Understanding the spectrum that patterns our hearts
Yet by asking the question some insight is gained.

There arise among human beings people who
Just exude love as naturally as the sun
Gives out heat. And like rivers, they constantly stream.
Generosity is their most dominant theme.
Giving things away to others… when this is done
It comes back multiplied. Many know this is true.

Nature abhors a vacuum. That’s why there is flow
And abundance of all that can fill any void.
How does one become loving? If by divine grace
It would mean that but some get it. That’s not the case
Otherwise life on this earth could not be enjoyed
Period. We’d be stuck without room left to grow.

So, there must be some way of us getting this grace
That’s disbursed by divinity and channeled through
Many billions of people throughout all the earth.
It begins with oneself through decisive rebirth.
Openness to the stream is the way that is true.
It’s the only way that we’ll survive as a race.