Love

by Jean Jullien

Love tramples through the forests of our hearts
A wake of flowers in its footprints
We run after Love, watching where it's going --
Seeing if we can possibly divert it if it gets too far in
For we are afraid that if it sees the dark caverns of our souls,
It will leave us breathless and bare
They say love is a risk and you believed them
But did they never tell you not loving was an even bigger risk?
Because locking Love up in a cage
Where it cannot laugh and run free
Turns your whole heart into swamps of bitter dark
So let Love run wild in our hearts!
Expose the darkness so that it becomes visible
And all that is visible becomes light
Love stripping the layers of dirt off our old and tired secrets
Wake up, sleeper, Love whispers, rise from the dead and Christ will shine on you. 

// ephesians 5:8-14 //