Love and selflessness: A poem 

Love is the verdant poetry of the soul 

The gifts of caring and sharing on a roll 

One depends on it when it comes to push and shove 

It is a child’s secure trust and treasure trove 

Love is the source of boundless energy 

To be devoid of it is a miserable tragedy 

Hate is lonely and to be lonely is cruel 

In hate’s bastion, war and strife dwell 

Those who deem they have little to love 

are in rejection of the luminescence from above 

Love involves altogether forgetting the self and to serve 

for the benefit of those that benevolence deserve 

But to punish for greater good in equal measure 

is the consummation of duty not love’s erasure 

Inevitably, love reaches completion in sacrificing and forgoing 

That is the fulfilment of expectations of the all-knowing