The Wake of Love

Let down your defences, lay down your guard
Allow love to wrap you in its arms
Let it wipe the grazed knee
Of your human frailty
As you return to grace
In its ineffable embrace
Realizing in its wake
You are not your darkness, failings or mistakes
Restored to innocence, whole and true
You shine a-new
Never have you been anything less
Than your adorable self
However much your inner critic or others may profess
Or shameful secrets of any misled past confess
The truth shall ever remain, and you will always return again
Through the ever open door to where love awaits
Your eternal fate
To be held in love’s arms as it whispers to your heart:
“You are loved always and forever, beyond light and dark.”