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Love, Loved and a Lover
<p>Oh, to be loved,</p><p>Must be a need to feel warm—</p><p>Warm from the cold of loneliness,</p><p>And strong from the spirit of weariness.</p><p><br/></p><p>But aren't we already loved?</p><p>Or do we, like Thomas,</p><p>Want to see a hand,</p><p>Before we believe?</p><p><br/></p><p>We want to be chosen based on qualifications,</p><p>But we were chosen without merit.</p><p>Or do we want to see lists,</p><p>Or get emails of approved candidates?</p><p><br/></p><p>We seek definitions of ourselves</p><p>From vessels on a potter's shelf.</p><p>Why don't we ask the Potter,</p><p>“Am I a wanderer or a wonder?”</p><p><br/></p><p>We tear off the original labels,</p><p>Downgrade ourselves to okrika,</p><p>Amend ourselves like clothes handed down,</p><p>Leaving the hands of the Designer</p><p>For the needle of the repairer.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oh, the need to be loved,</p><p>So we settle for peasants,</p><p>Just to hear, “Your company is pleasant,”</p><p>Even when seated in heavenly places.</p><p><br/></p><p>The irony of a lost prince</p><p>And a runaway princess,</p><p>Seeking validation from the crowd—</p><p>What sort of an identity crisis!</p><p><br/></p><p>We seek for flowers</p><p>From a crowd who threw spit and stones,</p><p>Begging for roses from hands</p><p>Who were mowers and not gardeners.</p><p><br/></p><p>We hoped the crowd would chant, “Celebrate her!”</p><p>Yet the same crowd once yelled, “Crucify Him!”</p><p>What makes you look for love from murderers—</p><p>Murderers of self-worth, purpose, dreams, visions, and identity?</p><p><br/></p><p>So we become shapeshifters with no magic,</p><p>Become chameleons without scales,</p><p>We become small canoes on a big ocean,</p><p>Tossed by the waves of confusion,</p><p>Frustration, validation, and criticism.</p><p><br/></p><p>And so we sink like Peter,</p><p>Because suddenly the waves are stronger than our faith—</p><p>Faith that there is a love and a Lover,</p><p>Faith that we are loved and we are longed for.</p>
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