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.

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what is love
really
does it scream out loud
can it stand out proud
disavow the belief that it’s damned and prevail
.
need it fail
be derailed
take the fall to tall tale
play a fool of us all
as we wait to exhale
.
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
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
(with feeling)
.
love makes suggestion we say what we see
make someone’s day when they see what we say
make someone’s week when we speak the same tongue
do this enough we may make someone’s month
teach them to run every miracle mile
make them feel safe as they take every plunge
break chains and face every clinical trial
with feelings no longer expunged
.
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
love gives same old scenery a greatly needed face lift
love proceeds upstandingly when ceasing to forsake it
given open-handedly there’s no real need to take it
.
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
reach for our dreams
.
love can make a point and promptly prove it
love can take an aching joint and soothe it
love is medication
doubles up as a first aid kit
true love is so much better than the movies
should not come and go just as it chooses
for when love snoozes
everybody loses
when love snoozes
everybody loses
when love snoozes
everybody loses
.
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
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
.
on your marks
get set
once more with feeling
(with feeling)
.
love makes suggestion we say what we see
make someone’s day when they see what we say
make someone’s week when we speak the same tongue
do this enough we may make someone’s month
teach them to run every miracle mile
make them feel safe as they take every plunge
break chains and face every clinical trial
with feelings no longer expunged
.
love makes suggestion we say what we see
make someone’s day when they see what we say
make someone’s week when we speak the same tongue
do this enough we may make someone’s month
.
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
.

Richard Charles Stevens

Keeper of The Crimson Quill

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