Once I read

in a book

that love is always

always work and/or courage

now

many years later I know while

useful

for a season

such a definition

stumbles

sputters

long before

the finish line

for love is

always

always

grace

true love

is unmerited

unconditional

grace

elegant

luminous

grace

while work and courage

may get up early

put on overalls

dungarees

and

feed the

flame

the radiance that stifles

bitterness

aborning

is

only and always grace