See What Love Can Do

It comes in varying degrees

Although many are hung up

And can only consider 

It’s most extreme meaning

If one loves another 

One must love everything

If one cannot do so

Then, it must be something else

How very unfair

Dishonest to love

Deceitful to the recipient 

Fraudulent to the giver 

Contrary to popular opinion

Love has ne’er been blind

Love simply allows

A plethora of shortcomings 

Love has one truth

And so many opposites

The most prevalent of which

Is judgment 

Love is encompassing 

Judgment is excluding

Love is carried in an open hand

Judgment is delivered by a fist

Love gives

Judgment takes

Love bestows

Judgment hordes

Surround yourself with love

Employ it in your dealings

See others through its eyes 

Leave room in life for none other

Let love be 

The root anchoring you

The trunk to which your life connects

The branches of giving and receiving 

The leaves of your beauty

Take a chance

See what love can do

© Ron Simpson Jr. 

December 13, 2020