Let Love Be All Poem by Patti Masterman

We try to love someone, but we knot up their life-
Suffocate, strangle, expose them to strife,
And what's good for us may poison them,
As though we just shook their world, on a whim.

Then we try to give space, so they feel abandoned;
It's too much or too little, and it all feels so random.
One fills the world with emotion and yearning,
The others in wind hangs, twisting and turning.

Each of us views things through different eyes,
With different ideas of 'hello' and 'goodbye';
If we all can't agree on the simplest of things,
Then real complications must drive us insane.

If love is the goal, then we should incline
To always be thoughtful, and wise, and kind;
If love is worth having, if love be the aim-
Then let love be all and thereby, give no blame.