Love's Load

Love brings a burden only love can bear,
love brings a child into the maw of life,
but who can bear the child’s load with care,
and help the helpless child face the strife?

Love brings with it what only love can render,
to tend the child’s needs, the daily grind,
beyond the burden, render love so tender,
devoted, gentle, patient, warm and kind.

Life passes and the child and parents grow,
the child’s mature, the parents, old, have needs,
they can be met ways only love can know,
love’s proved again by more than words and deeds.

I am God’s child, and God knows how to love
in ways that here I’m only dreaming of.

                        -- by Pete Voelz      7/18/13