Oh
Love !
©1995 Frank Sant'Agata
Love
comes in all sizes, shapes, and senses;
It sings "Everything is well" It glorifies the world
you see
We all want it and we all have wondered where to find it
We search high and low, we wait with patience
But love eludes us; or comes for awhile and leaves.
Oh
love, where are you now?
I'm here. I'm always here.
Here within you.
I don't take leave and return as
a great surprise when you least expect me.
I don't hide in the deep reaches of your everyday strife
in wait for the right moment to reward you
when I think you are deserving.
You simply turn your back towards me
and keep my presence unknown to yourself.
But I'm always here.
When you stop to smell a flower, watch a child,
feel the Sun's rays on your face,
you become aware of my presence.
Whenever you greet a friend, help a stranger,
give a gift, you see me then.
I communicate through your senses.
If you sense something you like,
I am awakened to you.
You want more of this, you say.
But when there is something you do not like,
I am absent from your awareness!
There is so little that you like,
and so much you dislike in your world.
You made it that way.
There are so few persons that you love.
There are so many you would avoid.
You were taught through the ages
that some people were okay,
others not so good;
You were taught by your ancestors of long ago
to accept some things; reject others.
Now passed down through the ages,
it is your legacy.
Or is it ?
Must you accept teachings that are not
based on truth ?
How do you know if they are true
or false beliefs ?
This is easy.
You simply ask if they came to
your teacher through love or fear.
I can assure you, if they were love based,
they came from me;
But if they were made from fear,
they came from a part of you-
that is not a part of me,
and never will be!
I am like light and fear is like darkness.
If you turn me on, darkness leaves immediately;
But darkness has not the same power over me.
There can be an abundance of darkness
and a tiny light.
And where that tiny light is,
the darkness can enter not.
And so it is with fear.
If a tiny bit of love exists,
fear is locked out.
And when fear is present,
love cancels it out immediately.
What are you afraid of ?
That you will not have love ?
Then, by that very fear,
you have turned your back on love!
Look my way,
I am with you always.
I am a part of you.
You are a part of me.
It is not I who forsake you
when you think you are without love,
but you who forsake me.
When you ask where love is you have forgotten;
Love is within you.
Love is you.
Love is.
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