If only love were finally, enough –
then you’d have no more fears:
look here, and listen: we have love
enough for you; and more; and more;
but how to prove that love’s indeed enough
beyond all doubts? Bring on the opposites;
try and test in fire and whirlwind, ice and storm,
that love alone remains;
for only when the chips are down
will love reveal, just what love really is:
containing every opposite that seems to rule the world:
fierce tenderness; and ruthless mercy; hate that only love creates;
love like we’ve never thought it; love, unendingly, enough.
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-they-ll-know-who-they-are/
