steady love
there’s something, so much depth about love that lives.
much is made about the sacrifice of one life for the sake of another,
and for good reason.
such a sacrifice requires denial of life itself;
no one could have greater love than this.
but what of the love that bears the mistakes, day after day?
the love that weathers the storms that drive doubt against the foundation in pounding sheets that produce the questions of whether there is anything still worth standing for.
the love that is able to sit with the image of the deepest betrayal
and not avoid it or run the other way.
when there is nothing guaranteeing resolution, this love waits,
day after day in the aching stillness of unknown air.
this love does not require an announcement of its importance, but rather it quietly carries you to bed when you have cried yourself to sleep due to damage inflicted by another.
the love that has no great words of promise and desperate declarations,
its rescue is hidden under humility that weathers the waves of your turbulent, ever-changing emotions and waits till your storms have calmed.
(2013)
