<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span class=""><span class="">Love Song</span></span><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I hear other names for You – The Inviolable One,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">God, Allah, Wakantanka, Higher Power,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Ineffable. But why bother,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">when You call to me by no name at all and I come.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Neither of us have a word for each other<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">save Us.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And even that is nobody’s business but Ours.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">So let’s forget such partitions as names<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and discuss this April day within,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">which captures birds in flight<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">and all their eggs and songs<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">in one straight deed of liberation.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">The mighty have fallen around this peace.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But let’s not get into that, when every moment<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">is roses, and the scent You gives off tastes<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">in my nose like Now.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Like Forever. Like Now.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">All I want from You is nothing.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Peace is a dance, after all.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Peace moves. Peace laughs.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And Peace’s discussion is boughs of trees,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">light, carriages, actors at their bent,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">bravery in and out of action,<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">for after all, what, what, what<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">in this world is possibly not roses?<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align: center;"><o:p class=""> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Bruce Moody</p></body></html>