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Love Can
Love can transform a mere house to a warm, caring home;
Love can tame the tireless wanderer's desires to further roam;
Love, a blazing fire can kindle, in once hopeless eyes,
With pride and self-esteem catapulted to the skies.
Love can melt the hardest heart, though unyielding as stone;
Love can banish the misery of being all alone,
Bringing fulness and completion, with comfort untold,
From the angst of growing pains to the aches of growing old.
Love can heal the broken spirit, and give it wings to soar;
Love can generate feelings such as were ne'er felt before,
Imparting a new dynamic, each action to guide,
By thinking first of another, with selfishness laid aside.
In the harshest of conditions, love still can survive -
Though assailed on every side, it triumphantly can thrive,
For howe'er insurmountable the obstacles may appear,
Love can overcome, a victorious path to steer.
But love, when 'tis lost, can leave an aching void,
For, also tender and fragile and easily destroyed,
Quickly and irreparably the bubble can be burst
By the manifestation of human nature at its worst.
And though the greatest academic could never legislate
Man's inhumanity to man to fully eliminate,
Yet there is a solution, so simple yet so wise -
The power of love our vexed race could revolutionise.
© Ian Caughey
Love can transform a mere house to a warm, caring home;
Love can tame the tireless wanderer's desires to further roam;
Love, a blazing fire can kindle, in once hopeless eyes,
With pride and self-esteem catapulted to the skies.
Love can melt the hardest heart, though unyielding as stone;
Love can banish the misery of being all alone,
Bringing fulness and completion, with comfort untold,
From the angst of growing pains to the aches of growing old.
Love can heal the broken spirit, and give it wings to soar;
Love can generate feelings such as were ne'er felt before,
Imparting a new dynamic, each action to guide,
By thinking first of another, with selfishness laid aside.
In the harshest of conditions, love still can survive -
Though assailed on every side, it triumphantly can thrive,
For howe'er insurmountable the obstacles may appear,
Love can overcome, a victorious path to steer.
But love, when 'tis lost, can leave an aching void,
For, also tender and fragile and easily destroyed,
Quickly and irreparably the bubble can be burst
By the manifestation of human nature at its worst.
And though the greatest academic could never legislate
Man's inhumanity to man to fully eliminate,
Yet there is a solution, so simple yet so wise -
The power of love our vexed race could revolutionise.
© Ian Caughey
Have you ever noticed how love can make the most unlikely people do the most unlikely things – often to the wonderment – and great amusement – of others? The explanation, of course, is a simple one – it is but a visible demonstration of the trememdous power of love.
This poem is a simple celebration of love in its many facets – from banishing loneliness, imparting purpose, transforming houses to homes, and boosting self-esteem through to triumphing in adversity, overcoming obstacles and being a potent force for good midst circumstances where the word “mankind” may appear almost a mockery.
It has wisely been said that the best way to change your enemy is to make them your friend. It takes love to do so. But, in an age where the words “strife-torn” are often applied to families, communities and even entire countries, who can estimate the impact were such timely counsel put into practice?
This poem is a simple celebration of love in its many facets – from banishing loneliness, imparting purpose, transforming houses to homes, and boosting self-esteem through to triumphing in adversity, overcoming obstacles and being a potent force for good midst circumstances where the word “mankind” may appear almost a mockery.
It has wisely been said that the best way to change your enemy is to make them your friend. It takes love to do so. But, in an age where the words “strife-torn” are often applied to families, communities and even entire countries, who can estimate the impact were such timely counsel put into practice?
