What is Love?
 
  Young, oblivious and know-it-all snide,
I looked at life as if the world were my due.
To impress myself - for surely I knew -
"What is love?" I asked brimming with pride.
 
  In time, I cast my youthful brashness aside.
Indeed time taught a hard-earned humility.
What once was owed was now sought with . . . trepidity.
"What is love?" I wistfully s-i-g-h-e-d.
 
  Day by day and year by year the pain grows inside.
What once I presumed mine and which later I sought
Except for troubled memories, has left me naught.
"What is love?" in anguish I CRIED!
 
  A man painted red - with his own blood undried
From his wounded feet to his thorn-crowned head.
Nailed upon a cross, He hung I knew, in my stead.
"This is love." Christ said as He bowed his head . . . and died.
 
  May 1992