Love is an unexpected gift
Of time with a long lost friend
Love is softened stains
As one wipes the tears and tends.

Love is a gentle squeeze
When your strength is all but gone
Love it perseveres
To ensure another song.

Love it never leaves
One stranded in a pain
Love it grabs a hand
To write a new refrain

Love it pours a cup
Of coffee with an ear
To settle a troubled heart
And listen to their tears.

Love it keeps one close
To foresee a troubled road
Love it intervenes
When the the wind blows in too cold.

Love it wraps one tight
Like a blanket of precious warmth
Love rebuilds the ruins
When Satan leaves one scorned.

Love accepts not the loss
Of all that is so good
Love is in the gap
When others are tired and ruined.

Love it holds the hand
Of one frightened in the night
And love was shown us pure
Thru the very love of Christ.

December 19, 2015