Inspired Words: POEM of LOVE's-Passion

CONSUMPTION of PAIN in LOVE’S PASSION

Passion and pain collide –

full force together they flied.

This explosion so powerful,

threatening to make me cower in a hole

and settle for life so-dull.

But how can I put out a fire

that burns from a force I did not acquire?

This longing like a virgin birth

inseminated before I even walked this earth,

weaved within the DNA of my worth.

So, no matter how many times my hopes clash

and heart, full-force forward, hit disappointment – SMASH! –

I can’t live passionless;

for when I try to harden to rock my heart of raw flesh,

my heart empties out and innards scramble a-mess.

And raw accurately describes it,

for when you care, you take hit after hit;

this world does not guard the purity

of a passion birthed from the fear of He;

They don’t understand the Spiritual heredity

of this transferred passion of Christ

when a heart opens and lets Him melt what was once iced.

That’s what passion is –

a divine infusion of His –

spilling out in word and deed, aflame

and without shame

at the sound of His name:

Jesus. Jesus. JESUS!

Can’t stop embracing full this life to which He frees us.

With arms wide to love I’m a bigger target,

but I refuse to cave just yet

because that name – Jesus – stretched wide

to span the gap between pain and passion when he died.

So though this pain and passion in me now collide

I continue on this path with steady stride,

for the I know the glory of Love’s consumption awaits on the other side.

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