Poetry: Truth and Love can get along just fine, but not confined in each other's houses
@innertalks (22088)
Australia
June 3, 2020 12:28am CST
Love lived alone in its house, built with truth.
It was lonely for company, so it went out for a walk.
Love loved all it saw, as it walked around,
but then it never saw truth outside of itself, of its house.
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Truth never damages anything, when it lives in love,
yet love on its own is lost amongst nontruth to you.
Nobody can love fully, until everyone loves fully.
The truth is only the truth, when its known by all.
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And so the truth bricked itself up in love's house,
and then it felt at home there, but nowhere else.
Love never knew truth, until it escaped the house.
Truth must live outside of love not entrapping love.
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Truth, to be alive in you, must be part of love in you.
Truth dead to itself, is only brought to life by love in you.
Love kept inside its own house, has buried its truth.
Love must be actively alive, living its truth, to be truth.
Photo Credit: The photo used here belongs to the writer of this piece.
Does your own house of truth and love, lock you into it, or let you out, to spread its truth and love?
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
3 Jun 20
Yes, if we believe in God, he got out of his house to spread his truth and love, via his creation.
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@JhovanPH (2672)
• Philippines
4 Jun 20
@innertalks indeed! Some people. Out there might appreciate his creativity
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
4 Jun 20
@JhovanPH Yes, and it is good if we can embrace such creativity in our own lives too.
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
3 Jun 20
Thanks, Ken.
Love loves the unlovable, by living its truth actively alive, in its interactions with others.
The unloved feel both the love and the truth of that love, and so do the loved.
@Shiva49 (26776)
• Singapore
3 Jun 20
Love and truth expand through sharing.
We are here to do that, not to accumulate for our keeps.
Knowledge, too, is enriched and enhanced through sharing,
Our world needs us to do more and fill the void that needs filling up.
We need to shine our lights ever brighter - siva
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
3 Jun 20
Yes, sharing is the way to go, otherwise, we get weighed down going our own way only, not realising that we are just running circles around inside our own closed doors.
Nothing much is served by living in closets, or caves, in the mountains.
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
4 Jun 20
@Shiva49 Yes, it soothes us, and those after we are gone, if we can do this, leave positive footprints in the sands of time, and yet these too, will be all washed away, in time, as time ultimately is just a canvas for something else.
We need to leave footprints in the mind of God, and of other souls too.
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@Shiva49 (26776)
• Singapore
4 Jun 20
@innertalks Yes, it behooves us to leave positive footprints in the sands of time like we are enriched by the acts and thoughts of a few from time immemorial - siva
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@lazydaizee (6735)
• United Kingdom
3 Jun 20
Nice words, I like the house in the picture. Is that where you live?
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@innertalks (22088)
• Australia
3 Jun 20
Thanks. No, that's a picture of an old fire station around here, now a sort of public museum.
I had an excursion through there 50 years ago in my school days; it was still operating then as a fire station.
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