Love Is Giving And It Gives Everything Away Poem by RIC BASTASA

love is giving
and it gives all
love surrenders
and it surrenders all
that love has,
love bares its body
and love for love
takes the body

opulence and abundance
cascading hair on the shoulder

the test is when everything is given
and nothing is left
and if the other remains
having taken all
that i think is what love is all about

when you give it all
without regret
like a tree giving away all its ripe fruits
to the indifference of
the grass and the ground

a seed soon sprouts anyway
to regain back what was lost
without forgiving.