Love is not a given

Love is not a given...
It is earned on the plains of hopelessness
discovered in the unknown territories of fear
and loneliness
but never reveals itself until the
last
gasp
of desperation
throws itself upon the cliffs of the unattainable...

Love is not a given...
It shrieks from the highest mountains
as if no one could hear
the beauty of it's carelessness
but knowing it's own true form
another
meeting
itself as one
finds solace in the divinity of the master's fable

Love is not a given...
it rises through the mists of pain
sending jolts of lightning, shedding tears
of love's own selfishlessness
as it wraps itself around
the other
surrendering
all it's folly
as we begin to know it's able

to give itself as whole