Love is life. Life is love. <br />Everything I understand, <br />I understand only because <br />I love. <br /> <br />Everything is, <br />everything exists <br />only because <br />I love. <br /> <br />Everything is united by <br />love alone. <br /> <br />Love is God <br />and to die means <br />that I, a particle of love, <br />shall return to Love itself, whole and complete, <br />the eternal source of Love itself. <br /> <br />* <br /> <br />Did that fiery pacifist, that Pacific warrior, <br />that defender of the loving heart, <br />Jerry Hughes, write this? No, <br />it was Tolstoy, the writer of 'War and Peace', but <br />you two have much in common <br />and I salute you for everything <br />that you are and stand for.<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/0251-to-jerry-hughes-at-75/
