The Love Bleed (Give A Little Love Suite)

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 (Give A Little Love Suite)

Listen to Give A Little Love (The Not Enough Love Remix) by Nookie

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)
(flight)
(flight)
.
love is the message
need not seem obscene
knows how to guide us through turbulent seas
camps out inside us all set to release
when we learn how to give and accept it with ease
fervent and keen each excursion foreseen
through stargazing eyes that invite us to reach for our dreams
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
(take)
(take flight)
(flight)
(flight)
.
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
then all we see can be divine and sacred
.
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
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
(chase it)
love gives same old scenery a greatly needed face lift
(face it)
love proceeds upstandingly when ceasing to forsake it
given open-handedly there’s no real need to take it
.
love can make a point and promptly prove it
(soothe it)
love can take an aching joint and soothe it
(prove it)
love is medication
doubles up as a first aid kit
true love is so much better than the movies
(prove it)
should not come and go just as it chooses
for when love snoozes
everybody loses
.
love invests in wealth of stealth potential
love begets itself when seen as healthy and essential
is all we need for bleeds to lead to some place providential
can be believed when we trace etchings in the tree with changeless stencil
nothing tetchy
that’s just sketchy
love can be some way more fetching
love can leave a deep impression
need not preach to teach a lesson
love will lead the line to most divine of interventions
find a way to outstay breaking waves of inner tension
labours not beneath misapprehension
in a sense
our innocence is where love gleans redemption
love is true and real and crystal clear sincerely felt
love can see renewed appeal to feel when dearly held
love yourselves
love all you see
it never need be wasted
bleed it unconditionally
receive it back legitimately
intimately back it
and embrace it
for while love may seem fiction
for a simple fact
it’s sacred
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
(embrace it)
.
love makes suggestion we say what we see
(embrace it)
make someone’s day when they see what we say
(embrace it)
make someone’s week when we speak the same tongue
(embrace it)
do this enough we may make someone’s month
(embrace it)
teach them to run every miracle mile
(embrace it)
make them feel safe as they take every plunge
(embrace it)
break chains and face every clinical trial
(embrace it)
with feelings no longer expunged
.
foundations shake when they’re made on false stone
boundaries chafe when we claim souls our own
they can be given
to infinite keep
providing we supply them with the freedom to breathe
need not commit to the sinking of teeth
when a full heart knows best how to willingly bleed
love can be expressive in so very many ways
once we do our level best to let it stay and play
(embrace it)
.
let it stay and play
(embrace it)
let it stay and play
(embrace it)
let it stay and play
.
love will see us scale the heights
provided we regale its prize
beneath sweet veil
it lends embrace
in chase of dreams too keen to waste
no more serene a steeplechase
to make one feel alive
aware of where horizon lies
within the glare of sightless eyes
crystal castles in the sky remarkably divine
are masterpieces sky high seen through eyes of realign
.
masterpieces sky high seen through eyes of realign
(divine)
masterpieces sky high seen through eyes of realign
(on your marks
get set
once more with feeling)
.
love is true and real and crystal clear sincerely felt
(with feeling)
love can see renewed appeal to feel when dearly held
(with feeling)
love yourselves
love all you see
it never need be wasted
(with feeling)
bleed it unconditionally
receive it back legitimately
(with feeling)
intimately back it
and embrace it
(with feeling)
for while love may seem fiction
for a simple fact
it’s sacred
(with feeling)
(divine)
for a simple fact
it’s sacred
(with feeling)
(divine)
for a simple fact
it’s sacred
(feeling)
(divine)
sacred
(feeling)
(divine)
sacred
(feeling)
sacred
(feeling)
(feeling)
.