LOVE Poem by Adina Jeremiah

Love is a force to be worshiped.
More than mere emotion,
It shapes our souls from within,
Molding us in its image.

Love is so powerful even the mightiest of warriors kneel in its presence.
The silent orchestrator of our journey,
Weaving its threads through each heartbeat, and every breath.
You could never escape loving in your life;
Like a lost puppy looking for a home, it will unrelentingly follow.
Love is a shapeshifter, and comes to you in many forms.
It can be anything; an action, a feeling, a train of thought, a sacrifice, a gift, a tear.
The feeling morphing with each new person.

Love’s legacy is written in the Scriptures,
Etched in the annals of saints and sinners alike.
It’s the genesis and the culmination, the beginning and the end—
What humans from all of time have been born and died for.
It’s infinite, all-encompassing.
Love is Godly.

To love is to embody compassion,
In a world often shadowed by doubt and fear,
To give freely, without expectation.

And so, aggressively holding my heart so tight my knuckles start to whiten,
I declare: I will love fiercely, passionately, unconditionally.
I will love despite it all,
Because fuck, what else is there to do?