The greatest is love

Essential haiku

Hard to imagine

a world where love is vanquished

and fear goes unchecked.

If I have not love

then I am nothing, worthless

just a fading sound

I may understand

mysteries; if I lack love

I’m less than a breath.

Patient, kind, trusting

the good intent of others;

love is this, and more.

Love delights in truth,

bears all, hopes, does not insist;

and never gives up.

Prophecies will cease,

tongues and knowledge, too, will end.

Love goes on and on.

So much is partial;

when all things are made complete

so, too, will knowledge.

Behave like adults,

put an end to childish ways;

be guided by love.

There remain three things

without compare: faith, hope, love.

The greatest is love.

© Ken Rookes 2020

Posted in response to the Narrative Lectionary, 1 Corinthians 13, for the sixth Sunday in Easter.