What we need is love

“Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.”

                                                           Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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it has been said

all we need is love

of course we laugh

and point out that air, and water, and food are nice

and that we cannot live

really, without clothes and housing

and yet

we can have it all

and feel the crying need

for more, more

as emptiness claws at our souls

we can have it all

and yet feel the need to hide

behind hate and guns

because fear rampages

and erodes our hearts

love may not be all we need

but it is the unique ingredient we

all need

it is love that keeps our minds free

our hearts open

our souls spacious

love (Sacred Personified?)

is

what we need