July 20, 2020

Four Letter Moon

Nothing can be changed until it is faced.

-James Baldwin

Imagine love wants to see

your true face

Imagine that nothing matters

except love

Imagine love as you

Imagine love as everything

you’ve ever given attention to

Imagine love abides in difference

Imagine love as a force

that gives us meaning

Imagine love abhors a vacuum

Imagine love wants to know love

Imagine everything matters

because love is real

Imagine love is a power

uncontainable & inconceivable

Imagine love as language, as selfless action,

as water, as purslane, as voles, as dragonflies, wind

Try to imagine a love

able to rise whole into thin air,

invisible to our eyes

& hold our entire awareness

on the thin new blade

of a brightness soon to come

Imagine the imperfections of love

that love adores

Imagine love imagining

your radical truth &

trusting your courage

your vision

your journey

to recognize

your self

in vastness

POEM BY
Qayyum Johnson
ARTWORK BY SUIKO MCCALL

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