Love and Friendship

To all my friends:

 

What sweet enraptures a flower inspires?

Of sweet perfume and beautiful colors,

the fierce sadness of pain it retires,

and brings forth tender sighs from lovers.

 

In His creation, God Artist almighty

gave us sense, smell and sight

to admire His altruistic might

and appreciate material beauty.

 

Aren’t friends like flowers’ ploy?

Don’t they share pain and joy?

They give to life sense and flavor,

grief, inspiration and valor.

 

God, with great wisdom and foresight,

in addition to senses, gave the heart.

To appreciate friends, emotion:

love, happiness, joy and compassion.

 

God said: “I am light, the only truth and wise,

to my sons and daughters, I gave my liberty.

To leave you alone is a vile necessity,

but my love I send in friends’ guise.”

 

“I made you with love and conscience.

You are witnesses to my love and presence,

to whom my Son I sent for deliverance:

to have faith and love is to have consequence.”

 

“In the wrong places I’m sought.

God of luxury, fury and rancor, I’m not.

I am with you, yesterday, tomorrow and today.

Wherever you go will also be my way.”

 

“You are flower that came from heaven above,

to be my witness and angel each moment.

You can be a prodigy of fertile love,

a free choice, a profound commitment.”

 

 

Pedro Marenco, July 22, 1996

© Sacramento, CA

 

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