Love's leading - 3

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So clean up what I can, and ask for help

where I can’t reach alone, or job’s too big.

And focus on my partner’s hopes, each yelp

of joy, or groan of pain or grief, and dig

down deeper to respond where I can join

in what our partnership is meant to be.

But don’t let me devolve to then purloin

things for myself, as though I’ll soon be “Me”;

that’s on my own without a need for love.

For that might be my one necessity.

And who I’m with is truly “from above”

beyond my expectations, they know me!

And love me anyway, have plans & hopes,

and don’t seem unrealistic in their pleas.

They plan for me to join, to really cope 

with hardships - and my immaturities.

And knowing I’m a “small child” and my thoughts

and mind is immature, to say the least,

creative love itself has done all sorts 

of timing & developing, not ceased

to work to make Truth concrete, personal,

organic’ly connected to a Way

of Life that shines with love whose arsenal

(creative) is persistent, ev’ry day

to welcome suffering, & loss of pow’r

because it trusts its very self to one

much greater in their knowledge, yet not sour,

& that’s when Life that’s Real has just begun!

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