Reflecting upon my dearest friend's words, -- Good day, this day.--
'Earn their trust' Trg, 2016
They told me
all I needed to do
was to earn their trust,
to earn their loyalty,
to earn their love.
I learned
that such folks
are yet in bondage
to those that taught them the same.
(Doing what is known)
When you start with a debt there's one way out,
f' it.
let what cannot be sufficiently earned,
like a slave buying their freedom where it's yet legal for a person to own another person -
let those exacting debt
owe it if they choose.
Love is God.
Some follow theirs,
offering animals, plants, even themselves
upon their coals,
requiring paying
for what already is.
Love earned
is love morphed.
I like this four letter word.