Reflections and Shadows

Must Love: Part 1

Must love be branded,

judged with labels,

of hateful notions,

shackled and reprimanded?

Must love be defined,

by anything other than

joined hearts, smiling eyes,

souls entwined?

Must love be tainted,

with lewd fallcies,

and shaming truths,

the narrow have painted?

Must love be resigned,

to suffocating molds,

condemned to die,

by those who've never pined?

Must love...