You have had a hard life as brief as it has been thus far as too have I only mine has seen the graying of the years You have within you a spirit of acceptance and gentle compassion that with the gray years lingering within me, I would only hope I could know You have within you a spirit of joy in the face of hardship that with the gray years lingering within me, I would only hope I could know You have within you a spirit of loyalty and the value of a friend that with the gray years lingering within me, I would only hope I could know You have within you a spirit of love and forgiveness that with the gray years lingering within me, I would only hope I could know
how in a time so brief have values so time tested found a heart so true
To love is to hold oneself vulnerable to the wound with abandon hope pursues it, in passion faith embraces it, and in surrender grace brings peace and becomes our advocate throughout, love sows understanding and grows closer through this covenant therefore, although it feigns destruction, be not rueful of the wound because the enemy of the wounded heart is the one proud and vanity its true prison love lay not supine nor can it be a thing beset or contained anymore than warrior prayers borne through death to storm the gates of Hades but only seized in cession and in the full measure of ITS time is known love can not be learned until known can not be gained until given and will only overcome in surrender
