For the Love of My Life

There is a beauty in their brokenness,

In their pieces, a whole.

A hole so wide

That only untainted, undying, unconditional

Love in the name of God can fill it,

True love is the quietest of all things.

In the spirit of God it is carried on a whisper

When it fills you, you won't even know it's there

True love is not romantic

It is patient, not frantic

It is not proud, it is not loud

It thrives on the simplest of moments

Love is the Way,

It is the Truth, the Giver of Life

It wants nothing, it seeks nothing

It is only their supporting

It is a new song

For people, people who long

Lost in the darkness, looking

For something Greater than themselves

Love is You

Love is everything worth being

Come, live a life

Of love with me

The New Corinthians is a culmination of thoughts, prayer and reading about what it means to love. After reading St. Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, St. John Chrysostom's homilies on Love in the epistle, and the writings of thinkers like Rumi and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the simplicity of Love became clear. It is difficult, I think, to emulate the true simplicity and inexhaustiveness of real love in our lives. We always want to make our love romantic, or about something other than what it is: the meaning of life. We try to use it as a weapon, but often we end up hurting ourselves more than others.

This poem harmonizes themes from across the globe, focusing mainly on a Christian perspective. These verses are a rendering of Love is, and a representation of the invitation of the Holy Spirit to join in a life of Love with God, who first loved us.

There is no reason to be afraid to love honestly. This does not mean that we should declare our undying love for one another, but it should be everpresent in our actions. I have wrestled for a while now whether to tell a young lady whom I love deeply exactly how I feel, when I realized that it is not necessary if I live out that love in daily life.