ART PIECE: creating one love

from temples and countries

from slums and townships

from streets and alleys and cobblestones

from buddhist monks and priests and rabbis and shamans

from the lost and the weak and the poor and the destitute

from one God and one man and one love

comes the hope of all humanity

in compassion and grace and peace and in radical reckless abandon

comes this one love

i am redeemed in my hope and optimism

as my eyes look forward to our greatest future

human decency and compassion begin to consume us

creating in our evolution of soul and spirit and body

a world where we live for each other instead of for ourselves

evolve that

welcome to the new world and the new order called love

discarding unemotional, unevolvable, uncreatable numbness

love and live and breathe the future.

i felt my heart ripped out of my chest

falling to the ground. 

thump. thump. thump.

beating the rhythm of pain

broken hearts litter the streets everywhere

from coast to coast and land to land love is learned and lost everyday

like poison our veins run red with desire, with the absolute encompassing need

to be loved, to love, to know.

And so we lust with life again and again

wondering what its like when it turns to love,

knowing what its like whenit turns to ashes. 

This is love

to unashamedly forget the past and recklessly abandon self.

i stop for a beggar on the street and i found love

i see a teardrop on the sidewalk and i found love

i hear a laugh on the wind and i found love

i feel the brush of skin on skin,a stranger walking down the path and i found love

i dance

i create

i stop and i stare and my heart races and i have found love

poor man, rich man, prostitute, princess,

abandoned, forsaken, lonely, brokenhearted

and i have found a reason to love

you can be the winds of change

in a stand still world of statue like hearts and hands

who are unmoving in their fear and hesitation

in an extreme effort to be removed from disappointment they never reach for anything beyond themselves

only the attainable, the daring possible here and now.

calling ordinary scandalous doesn't make it worthwhile

dare to try for more, to reach beyond yourself.

past a massive generation of forward thinking liberal speaking statues 

who in a thought for change forgot to dream

to envision a future beyond themselves

dream. hope. reach for. 

attain the unattainable.

love because you were born to. 

be more. do more. become

a generation of radically different future thinking dreamers

who live out tomorrow, today.

who inspire, who believe, who love, who act, who grow,

who educate with new perspective with new ambition

with a new kind of hope that creates change.

i am waiting on the world to choose who it will be.