Do I Know?

             (April 26, 2012)

         By Allan Thomasson

Do I know what love’s about?
It isn’t always “sing and shout!”.
Sometimes it hurts when love comes 'round.
Love always has its ups and downs.

But real love’s like a balance beam;

Sometimes you fall, sometimes you lean
To keep it right, and let it show.
And some may say, “I told you so!”.

Love all you have, and freely give.

We all need love to help us live
That happy life, with no distress.
But sometimes love is just a guess.

Day in, day out, love takes its flight

To bless all people day and night
Like 'Santa Claus' on Christmas Eve;
Love makes you doubt, but still believe

That love is good for each new day.

The secret is, “Give it away!”.
For if you give, it will come back.
To freely give it leaves no lack.

Real love is only given to

Those who most need it: (me and you!),
It is not seasonal, you see,
It thrives, though humans disagree.

It’s not determined by the 'look',

And love’s not something from a book.
It happens when we want it to:
You see each person as you choose.

It doesn’t seek just looks and poise,

And doesn’t use folks like they’re toys,
Nor in a play upon a stage,
It quells the anger, hate and rage.

It understands when some descend
Our baser self may yell, and rend
The ones to whom we’re closest drawn,
Though life’s askew, we must go on

To find the higher things in life,

That we must help their hurt and strife.
We must account for what we’ve done,
And face our hearts, yes, one by one.

How will our record on this earth
Look then to us, and show our worth
Where love was given, freely, purely,
To the ones before us, surely

“If we don’t, who will?”, we quote.

And so the book the 'holy' wrote
To show us truth, and love so pure,
While helping others to endure

The pain and agony they face

While standing in their awesome space.
It is love's duty, one and all,
To love our neighbor, lest they fall.
Some day, when we shall face our fate,
Should it be sad, or yet be great,
We must account for what we’ve done,
And face our hearts, yes, one by one.

And that will be the time we'll know

That we did all these things below
That helped our peers, and showed them true
That perfect love, from me and you.

I John 4:10-11:

10) "Herein is love, not that we loved God (at first), but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11) "Beloved, if God so loved us, we ught also to love one another."

Romans 5:8:

8) "But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinnere, Christ died for us."

John 3:16:

16) "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish (with the wicked), but have everlasting life."