i wrote this today while observing others around me in the union:
in a corner she sits.
hoping to be avoided.
headphones and lyrics blocking out the sounds of rejection.
the only voices that are heard.
wanting to go unnoticed - for that is all she sees in herself.
hurt - wounded - scars left wide open and unattended.
who is left to care?
can love even be known?
she doesn't make eye contact - for the response she has known before is all she expects now.
love is void and love is needed.
how long will we as people - walk in our ways - sure footed and stubborn to change?
we live in a day where love goes unknown and unreceived.
a day when love is needed most - and we find it void.
is it perhaps the shallowness of our love that accepts only what defines ourselves - and rejects all things beyond what we deem comfortable and justified?
the love i have come to know - the love i have had graciously washed over me has not been extended out of deserved efforts or correct living - but through the simplicity of existing.
through the complexity of how i have been created.
truth i have come to know over me - through doubt and lies that tell me otherwise.
and more than ever my heart breaks with a desire that others- many near to me and many who surround me in this place now - would experience love so purely that this very truth would never be doubted.
despite struggles - sin - differences - and past experiences...
love wins.
love remains.
love accepts.
love carries.
love sets the captive free.
may it be so.
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3 comments:
I like ya buddy.
Is this girl you?
the girl is actually not me. it was a girl sitting near me in the union. and whether or not these words were an honest reflection of her - i think they ring true for many. including myself.
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