Sometimes everything that is planned for is lost in a short conversation that changes everything. Promises are quickly forgotten and life quickly moves on for everyone.
Similarly misplaced loyalty can bring the same disappointment. One day loyalty will be sacrificed to something that is held more dearly by your betrayer.
Yet the ache continues to encourage us to seek something better. Hopefully guided by love, that gathers up all our misplaced trusting and secures it in a life that was formed by love.
I DON’T TRUST
I don’t trust
Tears
That dry quickly
Their source easily discarded.
I don’t trust
Promises
Their words not touching reality
Just words spoken.
I don’t trust
Truth
That doesn’t love wholeheartedly
Becoming lies said nicely.
I don’t trust
Loyalty
That when tested by fire
Melts away to nothing.
I don’t trust
Love
Except when I see
Tears
Promises
Truth
Loyalty
Forming a life
I hope the life that lives in me.
