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----Midnight
Thoughts of Love
| Olutayo Kadmiel
Osunsan - Uganda---- |
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12:28am
-----Love
is elusive. It is miraculous. It is divine. And as Shakespeare
best put
it, ‘love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind’1.
That means love
must be a being, a living entity. Love is sometimes a feeling, a
motive, a moment, but ultimately a person. Love is a spirit that
mingles in the dealings of men (and women) and roams the earth with a
clear motive- to be known to all humanity.
-----When
I was younger, I thought love was dying or living for someone or
something, but love is not the act, but the motive, the driving force
behind the act. I thought love was losing one's self in the tranquil
eyes of the person we love or a choice that lingers for a while. In all
this there is always a void that stands out like a sore thumb. What
more noble purpose can a human live for, than love?
-----Love that sets the soul free,
-----Love
that makes the spirit sing. Love that always has the answers.
-----In
my young life, I have seen love vividly in the gestures of loved
ones,
in the smiles of strangers and in the least expected places. I have
noticed love in the man who wouldn’t condemn an adulteress, I have
heard love in the words of he who calls ‘losers’, outcasts and ‘bad
company’ his friends and I have definitely seen love in the endless
possibilities of another chance- a new beginning to get it right.
-----Still
I don’t understand love, its ways and its unpredictability that
always
finds me astonished and inspired to strive to be better. Love that
looks beyond the person and the act to the root and the potential is
the one I seek.. Love that is blind to humanity’s complexity and
crosses the rivers without bridges or boats- just by walking on it to
get to the needy soul.
-----Love
that gives birth to faith,
-----Love
that strengthens hope. Love that never condemns.
-----To
say love is physical would be a limitation; it is the
supernatural
influence on the physical inspired by the divine whispers of God
himself. Love is his word. ‘In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with God, and the Word was God…through him all things where
made…’2. It is the foundation of existence,
the backbone of the divine
and the epitome of life. Love is many things that add up to one. Love
is God’s love for humanity. And no rules or regulations will hold him
back from every single soul that understands this: that love is meant
for every single person on the face of this good earth.
4:02am
-----‘For
mercy has a human heart, pity a human face, and love, the human
form
divine, and peace, the human dress’3, love
indeed is divine because
love is not God, but God himself is Love. Love that casts out all
fears, it is selfless, relentless and always preserves.
Love never fails.
Love is the greatest.
1-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer
Night’s Dream
2-John 1:1-5
3-William Blake, Songs of Innocence, ‘The Divine Image’
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