Abstracts of You

Hope is wanting
When your chances are slim.
Faith is believing
When you don't know the facts.
Courage is the ability
To stand for your beliefs.
Freedom is dropping the walls
That keep you from being yourself.
Trust is letting someone enter
That place where you are.
Honor is keeping
A trust given.
Kindness is caring
When you don't have to.
Beauty is seeing
The good for what it's worth.
Friendship is accepting another
Despite her faults.
But Love...
Love is allowing yourself
To be loved.
Love is all of these
And more.
So, is not love
The best of all?

Copyright 1993 Martin Hackett