Today I am posting a poem called "Love Is Not I". I wrote this for an art expo that I have currently been putting together for a fundraiser called Project 12.12.12. In this fundraiser I have invited all of my facebook friends to give $12 (or whatever amount they desire) to support me for The World Race July 2013 from 12.1.12 – 12.12.12.
I am honored to be The Awakening Branson first extension sent out through The World Race. During this adventure I will be going to 11 different counries in 11 months in order to share the love all around the world!
I would like to dedicate this Poem to The Awakening Branson team. During the last couple of years we have been serving together you have taught me so much about selfless love and sacrifice! I love you all and am so blessed to be serving and doing life with each and every one of you! 🙂 This race not be possible without your support and your prayers! The Best Is Yet To Come!
I wanted to really express the reason I am going on this adventure and that reason is: LOVE. If I do not love I am just an annoying noise, I am nothing, I gain nothing. So I wanted to use the arts to express the true definition of love. I just wanted to say thank you for all of you who choose to support me 🙂 This is my blog that I will be using to keep everyone updated on what's going on before/when I am on The World Race.
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Thanks again and I hope you enjoy!
This is Day #4 Project 12.12.12: Love is not Jealous, Boastful, Proud, or Rude
Love Is Not I
I
A word said with an inward glance
A single word of insignificance
Unless allowed to love and be loved
When focused on this word it is impossible to fly
I am learning that…
Love is not I
Jealousy
Feelings of resentment Inclined to rivalry
Inward fury of insecurity
And immense inferiority
Threading together the heart and mind of one tormented soul
That needs to know that…
Love is not I
Boastful
Exaggerated eloquence spilling from the tongue
Excessive pride and sometimes lies
The words My, Me, Myself, and I
Preoccupied with oneself but always lingering in the back of our minds
The thought that…
Love is not I
Proud
Unable to think of ourselves as less or level to each other
Inordinate opinions of our own superiority over another
Taking sole credit for our life’s accomplishments
Falling is likely inevitable
Finding in the midst that…
Love is not I
Rude
Deliberately uncouth
Wrought to bring our brother down
In order to erect our image above
Hurt hurled intended to bruise and wound
Ignoring the fact that…
Love is not I
Gravity
Dreams of flying
The slap in the face to remind us of reality
It pulls us down to the realization of our fatality
We are not immortal
Can’t run from the fact that…
Love is not I
One
Life to live
Time ticks by
Taking step by step
Grounded in this paradigm of insignificance
To make a difference we must realize that…
Love is not I
Small
In the expanse of the universe
One minute dot of existence
Among millions and billions of similar specks
All with the thoughts of why?
Purpose lies behind the truth that…
Love is not I
Love
The ultimate gift and legacy able to be left
Sacrificing comfort and pleasure in order to produce life change
To see the beauty in others other than ourselves
To fight for a cause greater than ourselves that will live on forever
Life change results from revelation that…
Love is not I
