LOVE

I am the most sought after, yet the most misunderstood. Oh how I long to be found and embraced, but I am far too often rejected. I am the object of your desire you say, as two eyes meet across a smoke filled room with hearts racing, panting, longing.

But oh my friend, you are very much mistaken, you see...I am what men are willing to die for, steal for, lie for, and even kill for. It takes only a moment to find me, and a lifetime to forget me. You see, I only want what’s best for you, but to have me, I will cost you everything to keep me.

I am who brings two people together who have never met, and I am who causes people to part, who have known one another their whole lives. I was there when it all began, when the foundations were laid. I was there when the stars were placed one by one in the heavens.

Sometimes, you don’t truly know you’ve found me, until you’ve lost me.  Because however will you know the difference. I am a mother ferociously protecting her children, while simultaneously nurtures and comforts them.

My friend, the key is giving yourself, and once you’ve given yourself. You won’t have to look for me, I will find you. You see, love is not love until it's given away. For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son. So I ask you, what are you willing to give for me.


Nicole Payne