Love: Study 1. {poetry}
i am the lion and
you are the lamb and
as prophesied,
we will lie down together.
because love is greater
than the sum of its parts.
love breaks all rules,
ignores all customs,
cuts through fences,
slips across front lines,
trespasses against us,
steals what it pleases,
pleases its victims,
slays its critics,
bleeds us to delirium,
and saves our souls.
love does not keep a ledger.
love has no master.
love knows no yesterday.
love seeks no tomorrow.
and nothing can be
taken from love.
love is terrifyingly complete.
love is truth unbound.
love breaks all rules.
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{A poem from the book Love Jaywalks: Poems from Waking Up at Rembrandt’s
by Thomas Lloyd Qualls}