POEM: I Choose Love

A short poem, or a song! Just add music...

I went for a walk today to process some things and this poem came as just the alchemy I needed. I am grateful to my muses or whoever sent it. I only changed a couple of words for clarity’s sake. I wonder what you think—to me it feels like a song. Anyone have a tune?

I really do choose love. Do you? Let’s do.

I Choose Love
Schuyler Brown
December 16, 2023

I choose love
I choose love
I choose love

Though the darkness is dark
Inky black
And the despair is heavy
Like the weight of the world
And the feeling of being trapped
Is like a multiple life sentence
In this body, in these conditions
A hero in my own tragedy
Still, I choose love.

I pray for relief
I pray to be seen
I pray for help
I pray for a miracle
I pray for all of these things
And yet, they never seem to come…
Until I choose love.

My heart hurts 
I forget myself
I become a victim
I become a perpetrator
I feel lost
And confused
My closest allies
My only hope 
I push even that away
Or at least, I try
I give it my best shot
To make things as bad "out there"
As they feel "in here"
But, when push comes to shove
Something in me,
Always chooses love.

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