November 3rd

"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing." I Corinthians 13:1-3

if i join the angry crowds
echoing the bile of speakers

or make t-shirts which quote

the mocking words of another side,

my love is slipping away from my life.

if i speak as if i know exactly

how others should vote or respond

to my candidate or react to any, if

not every, issue which i support,

my love is drying up in my heart.

if i am willing to go into debt 

to support my vision of how things

should be or i refuse to have anything

whatsoever to do with those 

with whom i disagree,

my love is seeping out of my soul.

and if i lose all my love,

whatever will happen to me or,

indeed, the world who needs

every bit of love it can find.

(c) 2024 Thom M. Shuman

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