LOVE

a word

one word

used abused refused
accepted neglected rejected

I just want it reflected

Into me so brightly that it
shines rays of light out
of my fingers and toes

That people who meet me and greet me
they see the word inside of me

It fuels me

It's required by my soul
more than my lungs can last without that
element "O" I found on that table in
room 301 in the science hall...periodically

One time in fourth grade I went
underwater with a wrist watch on and
gave myself a headache because I stopped "O"
for 90 seconds

But I know in less than one second without
the Capital L from The One who breaths
life into all created beings

I'd

be

done

I'm a fiend that runs inefficiently on it
but I don't pay the cost
and my failure to pass the emissions test of righteousness
makes the price of that fossil fuel look minuscule

a perfect life was lived

He knows that my soul could not hold out without
so He laid it down

I drink from His cup
I fall to my knees
and try to press my forehead through the ground
at the foot of His execution device

I ask him to join me
and He swims so deeply into my heart
with a pick axe he breaks off the hard parts
and softens me

I look up and say: "dhonnobad"