Saturday - November 16, 2013

But deep love is the desire to give
More than the living touch of warmth and fire,
More than the shy comfort of the little flesh and hands;
It is the need to give
Down to the last dark kernel of the heart,
Down to the final gift of the mind;
It is a need to give you that release which comes
Only of understanding and to know
Trust without whimpering doubt and fear.

(Josephine Johnson, 1910 - 1990)