Friend Love

In all its permutations
through our passionate errors
to the joy of rightness
the games some want to play briefly or endlessly
the truth that always shines through …

Consistent
patient
abiding
shifting its shape to wrap us in its embrace
seeing past the pain
through the foolishness
to the truth in our souls

Ah love …
how precious and blessed a commodity
when given openly, honestly, willingly
and without
strings