Love Was Our Alibi....a true fable for the ages

 

LOVE WAS OUR ALIBI (a true fable for the ages)

Love was my alibi

by Kris Fogelmark

Love Was Our Alibi

(a true fable for the ages)

Love was our alibi

And our defense................

Even as the world spun backwards

And made no sense

Love was our reason

And our excuse............

Even as the stars fell down

When the dark sky set them loose

Love was our motive

And our refrain

Even as the sun's rays sputtered out

And drowned in rain

Love was our security

And our hope

Even as the bravest man cried

And said he could not cope

Love lifted us

When we had fallen down

Picked us up in hands of angels

As we lay on the ground

Sat our feet on solid rock

Until we knew

That I could walk again

And run to you

And as I ran

I saw the darkness flee

For light shone there before you

As you ran to me

And as the world around us

Crashed and burned

We knew we could rebuild again

From all we'd learned

The long long days of solitude 

Were ended now and gone

And once again our humble hearts

Had found their home

But we were captured then

We couldn't stay

But pulled off of the Earth

To a vast place far away

The dark ones that held us prisoner

Looked at us and sighed

They acknowledged we were guiltless

And moved by that, they cried

Our crimes were thrown forgotten

Into the sea

They could separate us no longer

You and me

For we had earned our entrance

To Heaven's gate

And proved ourselves steadfast

As those who wait

To once again, unite

In love's embrace

And see at last the joy

Shine on the face

Of each of us

The criminals, once named

Who dared to love

When love was to be blamed

They had brought us to the judges

Of the skies

And demanded to be told

Our alibis

And as we stood in chains

With quivering lips

They questioned us with words

That felt like whips

But we could not defend

 Ourselves with lies

We hung our heads

And said," Our alibis

Are only love

And love alone, it's true

It is the reason for all things

We do"

And to our shock

We watched in awe, aghast

As our chains fell off

And we stood free at last

The judges smiled and nodded

As we knelt

In one another's arms

As Heaven wept

"You've learned the truth of truth" they said

"To live 

And learned so well

Your freedom we must give"

"How few of men

Have learned the reason why

For life bestowed

And lived beneath the sky"

 

And the dark ones flew away

To others find

That did not know the truth

In heart and mind

They could not deceive the ones

That knew the Light

And walked in it

And not the evil Night

For only love is answer

Good enough

To every question asked

And to rebuff

Love, alone the reason

For it all

For every rise to summit 

And to fall

Love, alone can mend 

The shattered heart

The stopping of it's beating

And it's start

For man was made to love

And then to die

And take his treasures with him

Past the sky

To give them to the One

Who made it all

Who made the ear

To listen for His call

For no other reason

Will He justify

The things done on this earth

Beneath His blue sky

But only love can free you

From the cell

Of selfishness and sin:

Your self made hell

For Heaven knows

What you must learn in time

That love must be the motive

For your 'crime'

These crimes that are no crimes

Except to man

Who thinks he holds the world

Within his hand

But his hands are empty

And his heart and his eye

And he will not accept love

As your reason why

But to the One who made

The sky and sand

It is the only reason He made

Man

To love and learn to love

Before he dies

And for every act he does

And all he tries

The motivation of his heart

And soul

To love and be loved in return:

His goal

What's done in love, pure love

Is not a crime

And will be thus rewarded

There in time

(So let our story teach you

Of this truth

And let our joy and glory

Be your proof

This book of truth you read now

With your eye

Will set you free if 

Love's your alibi

For no chain can bind you

When love's freed you thus

So, come take our hands

And run there now with us

To Heaven where there is

No shame to bear

And you breathe in love and joy

Like it was air

And we will look on Earth

(Our former ground)

And watch the lost still seeking

What we've found.)

©by VooShiningStone

March 24, 2019

4:40 p.m.

LET LOVE BE YOUR ONLY ALIBI

and though man and devil

can not understand

God will and those He holds there

In His hands............

                       💖

And truth will find you

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