Love.   A poem by Willa Ramsaran

Love
If you are smart
You'll fill your days
With love
Straight from the heart!
The only way to live
The full full life
Wake up and give and give:
You'll feel alive,
You'll thrive!
Love the ground on which you stand,
Love the all that's close at hand!
Love sky and squirrels, trees and breezes.
Don't be shy - indifference freezes.
Smothered feelings get stunted,
Battered psyches get hardened.
Hate is hell and hate is grief.
Love is heaven and relief.
Love is without beginning
The warmth in everything!
The great release -
Of ecstasy and peace,
The only real growth
To conquer hell and death.
The pure and the profound
The wisdom without end:
Grow love and be sound
Grow love and be free -
My friend!