Only for Love

Only For Love (©A. Calhoun, 2013)

It's only for love I was angry
Only for love I was wrong
Only for love I rode away
On the heels of a bitter song

Only for love that I lingered
Only for love that I left
In those hard blue days of horror
Of love by love bereft

That was the joke in the twilight
And a riddle hung ripe in the rain
Where God knows you never expected
To have a damn thing to explain

It's only for love I was angry
Only for love I was wrong
Only for love I was set free
To sing one last love song

I love you outside of a riddle
I love you upside of a cross
I love you in ribbons and tatters
In echoes and dreams and loss

For love that's tried in darkness
And held complete in one
Is love that walks beside you
No matter where you run