The Love Bleed, originally titled Love in Context, has been published in All of Me Vol. II, courtesy of Shadow Spark Publishing. Featured art is by Aelise Davis.

Listen to The Love Bleed by Richard Charles Stevens (The What If Suite)

Listen to What Is Love? by Howard Jones

what is love
really
does it scream out loud
can it stand out proud
disavow the belief that it’s damned and prevail
.
does behind each kiss exist a story to tell
or is this remiss and sink ships when lips swell
can it steer to great heights
stratospheres from plain sight
set aside landing gear and take flight
take flight
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
with feeling
heart on crest
no less dissected
sealing
with feeling
longing scars
are best redressed and healing
with feeling
heart on crest
no less
than blessed revealing
revealing
revealing
revealing
revealing
.
take flight
.
are we looking
not buying
thus disqualifying
the chance to hold something
undying
once we cease leaping
will fears start to creep in
our dear hearts depart from safekeeping
take flight
fly
.
love supplies a timely high to all five active senses
love can go the distance
even farther when extended
love is what we make it
not so only when we fake it
love’s cool breeze is all we need to rise from fallen autumn leaves
if only we climb tallest tree and shake it
take flight
shake it
.
love supplies a timely high to all five active senses
love can go the distance
even farther when extended
.
love is what we make it
not so only when we fake it
love’s cool breeze is all we need to rise from fallen autumn leaves
if only we climb tallest tree and shake it
.
take flight
flight
flight
flight
.
love can open up our eyes to other places
spaces
times
love is sweet when vulnerable and sweeter still bared naked
love can heal a heart in half the time that hate can break it
love reveals no part in crimes frustrated through blind hatred
frustrated through blind hatred
frustrated through blind hatred
.
fly
fly
.
love needs not a counterpart
to bid decline to downward arc
its art defines real lives not imitated
love retrains our brains to entertain each dream and chase it
love gives same old scenery a greatly needed face lift
greatly needed face lift
greatly needed face lift
.
live
live
live
live
live
live
live
live
.
love proceeds upstandingly when ceasing to forsake it
given open-handedly there’s no real need to take it
take it
take it
take it
take it
take it
take flight
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
with feeling
heart on crest
no less dissected
sealing
with feeling
feeling
longing scars
are best redressed and healing
with feeling
feeling
heart on crest
no less
than blessed revealing
revealing
.
revealing (repeat to fade)
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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