True Love

We talk about love

And the happiness of it

About being in love

And the romance in it

But do we really know

What that word means

Can we ever truly go

Beyond what it seems

Unconditional love

Means something so much more

It means giving everything

Till you’re empty to the core

Love means a shattered heart

It means pain and rejection

When there is nothing left to give

It means giving once again

It means caring and giving

Even when you fully know

That there will be no return

From the love that you show

It means seeing a homeless man

And the filth in which they live

Crying with a broken heart

For something more to give

It means going the extra mile

For someone who has betrayed you

It means giving out of pain

And knowing brokenness as you do

How can a human being

Living on this darkened earth

Truly love in that way

Without finding death first

True love does mean death

And I think that is why

In order to follow Him

Jesus said that we must die

Purpose

Tripping beside reality

Hiding in its truth

Running from the pain

In its existence from youth

Hiding behind yesterday

And the sadness that it shares

Breaking away from it

Stretching as it tears

Confusion in the letting go

Running as they hide

Trying to find the healing

Hanging on to pride

Letting go in the sadness

Trying to be free

Being left with nothing

Nothing that can be

Ashes on the grave that’s dug

Beside what should be me

Emptiness on the life thats lived

Contrary to the one can see

Finding purpose in the pain

Reality in the space

Knowing peace in the shame

And finally finding a place

Aloneness

Aloneness,

The vice in which I hide

The place I find security

The residence in which I abide

I used to run from it

With fear of what I would discover

I used to be terrified

Of what aloneness would uncover

I pushed to be around people

Always avoiding alone

I never took time to stop

And to myself be known

Aloneness was a fear

I avoided at all costs

I hid from it like the plague

Afraid that in it I would be lost

But now I fear I have switched

And aloneness is where I abide

I’ve found a security in it

And now from others I hide

I’ve gone from dependence

To an insistence on my own

I’m hiding in independence

I’m desperate to be alone

But I know that it isn’t right

I need to share my pain

I have to move to interdependence

Before security can reign