What Love Needs

A little rhyme

What Love Needs


Love does not need to be loved

Nor valued, appreciated or recognised. 

Love does not need applause from the crowd 

Keys to the city, a heroes welcome. Love 

Does not need to be loud.


Love does not need to be understood

Nor does it demand your understanding

Of the pain it is willing to embrace.

Love needs only to know there's a smile

Love put on your face.


Love does not demand your perfection

Nor set any standard for you to achieve.

Love is not an ideology. Love doesn't care

Who you vote for, or what you

Choose to believe.


Love will throw itself on a hand grenade

Or cast it's own soul into a firery hell.

Love does not need to be comforted

Except by the knowing that Love

Made you well.


Love is not an abstraction nor is love

A theory. Love is not a feeling anymore

Than it is an idea.

Love is not always perfectly positioned

To cast out the reality of fear.


Love does not need your kisses

Nor the caress of your fingers on

Loves own scarred and calloused skin.

Love does not judge your nakedness.

Loves not a game to win.


Love does not need to be loved.

Anonymously can love breathe

in the satisfaction of knowing 

Of your joy, wellness and freedom.

Love seeks only your growing.


You may not see Love at work

Nor recognise what Love can do

Yet Love is there in the shadows

Quietly hoping, watching, serving, 

Giving you to you.