A Poem a Day: People of Love

People of Love

By: Renato Castro Pasion, Jr.

(Makati, Philippines – August 21, 2017)

When friends ask how you are and walk away

Needing encouragement but don't get it anyway

You pour your heart and tears just won't stop

But getting nothing more than a simple thumbs-up

Remembering the joy when you used to hang out

Now everyone has no time, always moving about

So busy, doing things indispensably important

Like checking FB, Instagram. and filtering SnapChat 

I wished to hear a kind word when I went to church

But got another comment about my weight instead

Shared my thoughts and feelings but as I expect

I was left alone mid-sentence, talking to myself

Then a wonderful truth lifted my soul like a dove

We're to be a people of love not just people who love

The light, the salt of the earth, said Jesus my Lord

The change, Gandhi said, we want to see in the world

Loving our enemies or at least people we don't like

Is a pill that's hard to swallow but must follow despite

Anger, hurt, and bitterness even from close people we know

True lasting healing can happen if we learn to let go

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