What Force of Love

What Force of Love
Love powerfully moves our souls
With acts both kind and bold
But not all acts of love are happy
Some stay in our hearts as a calamity

For love demands a heavy toll
On the spirit and mind and soul
And the bravest of us may fall
Victims to love’s relentless call

So let us not be deceived
By love’s over-romanticized theme
For some acts of love are neither happy nor pretty
And noble acts of bravery can end in tragedy.

“What Force of Love,” Allpoetry.com, Copyright (c) July 2023, by Mark B. Jabusch.
“What Force of Love,”In the Event: Living with an Earthquake, Copyright (c) 2025, by Mark B. Jabusch. FriesenPress.p.97.