A Spoken Word Poem by Shueyb Boyer

Love! Is just a word made up of four letters, which we must construe in our actions.
We have to be patient
We have to be trust worthy or worthy of being trusted
We have to be respectful or just full of respect
We have to be careful or just full of care
Not just for our self but for the ones that makes us feel a little stronger when we are weak, happy when we are sad and rich when we are poor.
Love! Is just a four letter word, but how we define the word and how we apply it is what’s most important. It’s not just the word or how much we use the word, it’s who we become because of the word and what we do for it. See I know the word I don’t often speak it, matter a fact I don’t speak the word at all, maybe it has to do with how I was raised or maybe I have too much of that other word you know it starts with an H… in me, whatever it is though I know one thing for sure I know.............
Love! Is just a word, but it’s a well spoken word, it’s a well spoken often misused and abused spoken word. That is why it’s even harder for me to speak the word but not to express the word that’s easy, but to verbalize the word, to say the word that is what’s hard for me.
Love! Is a word, it’s an English word but understood universally around the world.
Like:
Peace! Every one knows peace; some still pray for peace while others wake up with hate some wake up to hate
Or
Hate! Every one knows hate, without it there is no action to judge, or success to envy, or face to discriminate.
Love! It's the opposite of hate, if you don’t have hate for something then you can’t possibly know the word. I’m not saying that it’s ok to hate but just like the word that spoken word we have to interpret hate in our actions.
If there is something you hate whatever it may be don’t just say you hate it but let your actions drive you to change you, and I say change you because that’s who you have to change first if there is something you hate, you can’t change no one else, so why hate them for not changing because you hate them.
That’s what any word should mean when or if ever you decide to speak them to some one, let your attitude construe the word, let your actions be herd and not just your words.