Love, Premeditated

Work hard.

Be kind.

Grow into the best version of yourself — 

Become what you were created to be.

* * *

Love. Forgive. Help.

Let your soul be rescued — 

Dragged from the wretched, raging, ravaging world,

Escaping the stench of self-regard, pride, cruelty, spite.

* * *

Let hate disintegrate — 

Like rotting clothes;

Reach for the elusive good.

Release the effusive bad.

* * *

Be tender to the damaged.

Hug those who hurt.

Heal the hearts of wounded souls.

Reconcile fractured family factions.

* * *

Leave behind a debris field of buoyant gifts,

Uplifting thoughts,

Honeyed memories,

& fond fables —

* * *

All lovingly left

For angelic-faced innocents,

Launching their journey (head-first)

Into life’s turbulent waves & jagged seas.