L-O-V-E, Logo for Life

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Whatever our ethnicity, creed, gender or sexuality, of all the choices we choose to confirm in life, the most important has to be love…

L-O-V-E, LOGO FOR LIFE

Choose love

for the comfort of old slippers

once rejected for smacking

of growing old, nor (quite) ready

to concede the case

for a comfortable shoe   

replacing the ever toe-pinching

designer variety

Choose love,

rejecting the nagging loneliness

of one-upmanship,

a sense of always having to prove

something to someone

(if not everyone) - everything

a must have, must do, must not

go without

Choose love

among its many shapes and forms;

never discriminate,

but take each at face value,

no trying to shape it

after a fashion to satisfy

some selfish desire that chances

losing it altogether

Choose love;

heat the body by its eternal flame,

be guided by a light

as reassuring to its acolytes

ever imprinting

time and (personal) space

with its logo as any swallow’s cue

to flee winter

Copyright R. N. Taber 2012; 2015

[Note: An earlier version of this poem was previously published on the blog in 2012 under the title as 'Choose Love' .]