Unconditional Love Poem by Jana Lee Wong

Unconditional Love



i understand your fear of a thousand hounds,
as if telling your secret would make me stop loving
you, but honestly, you could have hollered the
devil stole your soul and I’d be sitting there listening,
my heart unlocked, still loving you.

i’m not the relative who snubs the nose
at awkward moments,
shuns the sabertooth tiger in the room,
shakes at the sound of trouble,
squeams over a hitch in the highway.

i understand he stole your heart on a hell ride,
made you a fool when before you made fools of men,
but there isn’t anything you could say to me
which would close this open heart of mine.

honestly, you were created on an cumulus cloud,
a gift from Juno laughing through the eves of time,
your pigtails glowing in the freedom of childhood.

i held you in my arms when you needed me,
rocked you wrapped in a swaddling cloth,
taught you monopoly and the m&m game,
told you made-up stories of mice who
in their smallness, grew up to do mighty things,

and those mighty things came
from unconditional love,
like that of a omnipotent goddess
so mighty that not even zeus himself could wreck us.

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