How Big is Your Love?
So much hate all around us.
We experience it
off and on in our own ways,
our own time.
What is hate?
What is hate?
Its synonyms are a yucky bunch:
loathing, detestation, abhorrence,
aversion, animosity, revulsion,
disgust, contempt, abomination.
Such power they have
if allowed, witnessed, received.
Yet, even more powerful is the antonym.
That being, love.
Though hate and all its mates
do exist,
love can be, should be
stronger.
How big is my love?
Big enough to counteract the hate
that I now understand
was never about me
or because of me.
I know I live from
a place of love,
always have.
always have.
I interact, teach, speak, write
from my heart.
The more I recognize that truth,
the more I understand
how monumental love actually is.
As expansive as the sky overhead,
As expansive as the sky overhead,
fair weather clouds
gently flowing by.
As immense as a sandy beach
at low tide,
bits of mica sparkling together as one
in the light of a late fall sun.
As vast as the rolling ocean
stretching to places unseen,
reflecting that light from above,
its rhythms a comfort to behold.
As magnanimous as a
generous soul who,
by nature,
loves with a whole heart.
It surely is worth contemplating:
How big is your love?
Can you use it to help counteract
hate and all its mates?
Sarah Carlson
December 1, 2019
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