Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Unwanted Facade

Fair skin; like the whitest of silk.
So soft, so pure, you are afraid to touch for fear she will crack.
The color of her eyes capturing the beauty of a sea being tossed by a storm.
She is so wild, yet too fragile to be tamed.

Her garments are made of beauty and passion.
They seemed to swirl around her with ease;
Like the wind that weaves his arms through the trees.
She is perfectly curved.
Her figure speaks grace and hope;
Hope that she may find true love.
Is he the right one?
Or more of the right question,
Is she?

She is so sure,
So sure that he will love her forever and ever.
But her façade will eventually end,
The mask will soon fall to the ground
And her wounds shall finally bleed through the fine fabrics.

She will no longer be the person he wanted her to be.
She will be as me.

Her wails will fill the silent nights
“I never wanted this!” she’ll scream.
“I always just wanted to be me!”
Will be what she cries.

She hates the mask he has placed on her face.
It no longer protects her scars,
But instead  makes them to bleed.
The velvet inlay that covers her face that use to protect her scars and imperfections,
Now seemed to only remind her just how truly ugly her secret is.
She weeps, blood mixing with tears;
For she knows the real she,
Is truly ugly.

The lies and shame are too hard to bear.
She has tried before to reveal who she is.
Her trembling fingers have worked so hard to rip the beauty mask from her face.
A beautiful façade that will soon destroy her,
But he was always there to stop her.
His strong hand grabs hold of hers
Stopping her from unveiling the ugly truth.

“That is not the real you under there.” He would soothe.
“The person I see is much better.” He says to her.

Too ugly to be truly seen, the mask is set back in its supposedly perfect place.
Never to be taken away.
What’s underneath not to be seen,
As though it was not really there.
What was under, never existed.

It is the unwanted façade.

But as I had said before this act will soon come to an end.
When the mask finally slips away.
And so it has.

He now looks at her with disgust and regret.
She cries and pleads for him to except her,
To look beyond the scars and the blemished face.

For what seems like an eternity he just stared.
Not a word came out of his mouth.
Like a statue he didn’t move.
Then with a single tear that dripped down his face
He simply just shook his head.

She watched in horror as he bent down for the mask:
His beautiful fantasy,
A place where he’s the Hero and she’s the whore.
It is his perceived reality,
Nothing more.

With a tender touch that he use to save for her
He picked it up, brushed it off and held it close.
“He treats it as if it were real.”
“How could he, when the one that loves him is right here?”
But he doesn’t notice the love that calls.
He only notices his façade
As he walks away
Telling it that everything will be okay.

Now do not worry about the girl with eyes of the sea.
She has found true love.
“How do I know this?” well you see
The girl that I speak of… is me.
And with Yahweh and Yahshua’s forgiveness and love
I am free.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

What is Love

This is an essay that I wrote for school some time ago. At first when my mother had asked me to write an essay about love I kind of dreaded the assignment, I had no idea why but I did. It took me awhile to find out that it wasn’t the assignment but the subject itself that I dreaded. I realized that I really had no idea what love, true love really looked like and what it meant; as you will read in the essay. Through this realization came a powerful longing to find out the answer to “What is Love” especially Yahweh’s love, which I believe is the truest kind of love you could ever find, don’t you? So what was first just an essay became a quest. A quest that I’m proud to say that I am still on today, and coming closer to the answer each time I take Yahweh’s hand and let Him guide me in His ways.

The one who does not love does not know Yahweh, for Yahweh is love.
By this the love of Yahweh was manifested in us, that Yahweh has sent His only brought-forth Son into the world, in order that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved Yahweh, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be an atoning offering for our sins.
Beloved ones, if Yahweh so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 1 John 4:8-11

Now here is my essay. I hope it will put in your heart the urge to follow the quest for the truest kind of love - Yahweh's love- as I am trying to do. If you are already on this quest keep it up and don't discourage, you will find the answer some day.

When I was first given this assignment, I thought it was going to be easy.  I thought I knew what love was, but as I got father along with it, I found that I didn’t know the true meaning of love.  I had been so caught up in how I should show love, and not spending any time on finding out what love really was.  And as I started to think about it, I came to the conclusion that the only way you can show true love, is to know what true love is. 
     So trying to find more about the meaning of love I started reading stories in Scriptures that were about love.   The first story I came upon was when Yahweh commanded Abraham to sacrifice his most loved son Isaac.  But before Abraham went through with it, Yahweh sent a ram to give as a sacrifice emplace of Isaac. (Gen 22)
     While reading this story I tried to think what it would be like to be Abraham; giving up something I loved so much.  What faith and obedience that would take to go through with it.  By showing those two qualities he showed love, love for Yahweh that is amazing.  He loved Yahweh so deeply that he was willing to give his most favored son. Sound farmiliar? (John 3:16)  I pray that if Yahweh asked me to give something up that I truly love, I would give it wholeheartedly, because I love Yahweh more than anything.
      The next story that came to mind was about Ruth, and how she loved and cared for her mother-in-law, Naomi.  She devoted all her life to make sure her mother-in-law was fed and clothed, even when times were hard.
      As I started to remembered and read more and more stories, I started to realize that they all had one thing in common; a sacrifice.  Be it David and Jonathan, willing to lay down their life for one another, or Jacob serving Laban for fourteen years so he could marry Rachel.  All of which had sacrificed something.  
      Now I am not trying to saying that sacrifice is the only attribute to love, there are many others, like patience, obedience, forgiveness, loyalty and trustworthiness.  But was it not Yahweh and Yahshua who gave a sacrifice, to show the greatest acted of love ever in the history of the world?  The answer is “Yes”.

      So when someone asks me what is love?  My answer will be.  “Love is when you give with out reason, obey with out question, forgive no matter what, and lay down your life without hesitating.”  That is what love is.      "No one has greater love than this: that one should lay down his life for his friends. " John 15:13
 Thank you for listening to what I have to say and my opinion, but I hope you won't take my word for it and search it out for yourself.