for all my friends in The Philippines

The One and Only for all my friends in The Philippines Were I to love my neighbor as myself we would be enemies He has never tried to kill me yet as far as I know Yet I have tried to kill me such that nothing here below Could have outdone the determination of that dread disease Nothing could have stayed the hand of death but the hand of life With my own against me in the strife of life and death between But love is everywhere and even and especially there Above and between where love is the meaning of what I mean Love makes me believe for the first time in an adult way A feeling something must be out there caring what I do Out there above and in here between where love knows what I mean As tomorrow blooms from the seeds of yesterday today Still only but not lonely anymore with love at the door Loving myself as my neighbor a labor of love for me As I find when I refuse to see I might as well be blind And I believe for the first time what I only thought I knew Believing is relieving after only being lonely Seeing is believing and my eyes are not deceiving when Opening eyes and heart I begin to see the light of love again Nothing to prove to me as love proves to be the one and only +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMX