Basing all your actions on feelings
Is Satanism.
"Do what though wilt."
Feelings aren't real.
They're not true.
Hearts are unreliable at best and liars at worst.
Love - real love -
Isn't a feeling.
It's a decision.
A continuous decision,
One that you need to keep making every day.
Every day I wake up
And pick up
my cross,
My sister and put her on my hip,
My dad's laundry off the floor,
My brothers from school,
My mom's groceries and put them away.
I pick up books, and my phone,
And my friend's broken heart.
I pick up habits, the way he talks.
I pick it all up.
I pick up me, and I pick up you,
And I keep going, one foot in front of the other.
And I never put anyone down.
Trust me, if you ever see me put you down,
it's only to pick up this pen.
So I can write: "I love you"
A hundred times
Put it down,
Pick you up,
And start walking again.
