Johnathan Stokes

How to love, my love
which way do you prefer?
Love as a feeling
or love as a word?
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She knew her King James by heart,
the psalms, the proverbial wisdoms,
passed about through their many
translations, now bouncing around
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She says she wishes
her boyfriend
was poetical in his words
so he would say things from time to time to her like,
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If I were God
yes, I'd create silly apes,
yes, I'd create multiple religions
and let them war over which is correct,
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Life presents itself, in all of its grandeur situations
Both extravagantly compelling and tirelessly disheartening
So naturally, along you came, seeming of the unnatural,
Revealing heaven to a skeptic, enchanting thoughts, (there must be something greater)
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There is a place
neither hell nor heaven
where God sends those
who have dared to create, better than he:
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Everything in which we subscribe…
Every last subscription
Things we take into our every-day living
All of our comforting belief systems,
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There she stood, a beautiful dream
Bringing to life a dull day's scene,

Or was that I,
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It was those strings between those cups
Carrying conversations no satellite could pick up
It was that easy laid-back living'
Undisturbed by the bad news on the television
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Love is wise
old and eternal.
It does not flinch
or consider a disappearance
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There he stands
the expander of minds
the teacher of things,
a profound lover of knowledge -
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There are many unfinished books
sprawled amongst my floor
no bookmarks, just bent pages
with only 20 pages here to go
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We sat there together
talking as if forever
was something to be slain;
a beast no other couple
...

Wild desire, roaming free
along the range it's strange
encompassing effect, tells me
this must be love…
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