Four letters, one syllable, one Truth. LOVE. Until we come to understand,
to feel, to embrace, to become LOVE, we shall remain in the Dark Ages.
We shall continue to war against each other, to **** each other, to torture each
other, to hate each other, to abuse each other, to discriminate against others.
LOVE is not only the only way out of this hellhole, it is humankind's destiny.
We must first be able to LOVE ourselves to be able to LOVE others. Those who have been loved must begin to LOVE all others. The good news is that once loving becomes the new paradigm, replacing false notions of our worth being "rich and richer," LOVE will spread around the world like a divine virus not killing, but healing. And as LOVE heals us, it will heal Earth. LOVE will finally be realized for what it always has been, the one Truth.
Copyright 2020 Tod Howard Hawks
A graduate of Andover and Columbia College, Columbia University, Tod Howard Hawks has been a poet and human-rights advocate his entire adult life. He recently finished his novel, A CHILD FOR AMARANTH.