Love’s Residue

In the pain, the triumph, the heartache, the joy, the suffering, the endurance.

The human spirit thrives.

Like a mighty ocean, swirling and crashing

it flows, and ebbs, and soaks the world,

immersing it in the residue of love

Love so radical, love so kind, so cosmopolitan, so beautiful, so transforming

that it can reach into the

vulgar orifices of depravity

and lift the brutalised soul

into the soaring winds of the heavens