A Longing...

A longing that cannot be explained
A free man who finds pleasure in being detained
Unchained from my limits my heart cries within
The will to become something, the will to win
Has been bred in me like a wild flower blossoming in the wind
My home is not in any one place
My beginning is unknown
My present is life changing
My future is sure I wonder to and fro
My heart is sure to reach your shores
Welcome me with hope and I will be happy
Welcome me with love and I will stay forever
Welcome me with joy and my heart will be yours
Treat me with contempt and yet I choose to love
Use me and discard me like trash and still I will call you my own
Betray me with another and I will wait for you to awake to your senses
You see this longing can be explained
It is what the pure of heart and the wretched man can agree on
One path that the two have walked, one thing that they both have in common
To one it has been and still is the reason for life
To the other it is that thing they have decided it would be better to live without
Love is the most powerful weapon a man can brandish
The way it is used will determine how a man lives with it.

BY: Latoya Francis DATE: April 3, 2013