Knowing Love

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When the nights are lonely, and the breaths are low,
When the world spins fast, and one does not know.

When down is up and up is down,
when your common acquaintance has become a frown.

When sunlight makes you yearn for shade,
and thoughts a thickened path to wade.

Know that love is lingering, always by,
It may seem confident, disguised, or shy.

Know it stays, it never goes,
Reach inside and above though low.

Know that love prevails even when felt lost,
and believe in love no matter what the cost.

Believe in love, be it self or faith,
Believe and breathe, it is worth the wait.

© Jennifer Lee Dethloff 2010

the artist’s way

I drink my wine,
Its breath of swine,
the game of life at stake.
I held my breath,
the world regressed,
my soul was up for takes.

It pushed. I cried.
It laughed. I sighed.
Its power must be bled.
I walk to fly.
Oh paradox sky.
Speak. hopeful soul be fed.

I paint to cleanse,
the voices within.
For a change in lifes array.
And then I sigh,
and perhaps I cry.
It is the artist’s way.

Jennifer Lee Dethloff 2/2010