That's How I Know That Love Is Real
**For My Parents It’s in the silence.
In the so-quiet-you-can-hear-a-pin-drop silence
When everything’s said without a word being whispered
Because it’s in the hushed gaze of two people-
It may only last a moment
When it's real it’s quick
But perhaps you may catch it
In the still of a photograph
As the pair of lovers forges a path to each other with their eyes
A tangible chemistry you wish you could cut
And slice and dish out for yourself
Because their look of love tastes so sweet
That’s how I know that love is real
It’s in their laughter
When they light up in a way that seems to say
Nobody else in this world
Can make me smile the way you do
Can make me laugh the way you do
Allows me to be as free as I am with you
So dressed down, so regular, so uncool
And still we’re everything we’ve ever wanted
That’s how I know love is real
It’s in the heartbreak
In the tears that surface
But even more in the tears that never escape
They way they know there’s no one else
They’d rather be with
No one else they’d rather face this with
When the opinions of outsiders fizzle out
And all they can hear is the sound of each other’s heart beat
As they sit listening for God
That’s how I know that love is real
It’s in their children
In the three dear hearts that a love like theirs can produce
And nurture
It’s in the story of a young girl from a Jamaican country side
And a young man in a town opposite of it
Who hap upon each other
And think nothing of one another
Until God decides to make them each other’s everything
It’s in a marriage
That has lasted 25 years
A marriage where the learning and loving never end
It’s in the example they set
Not in the words they say
But the life they live as one
That’s how I know that love is real
It’s in the mystery
The same one behind Christ’s love for the church
The love between man and woman
Husband and wife
It’s in sacrifice
That was epitomized when Christ died
For you
For me
A love that is tangible
A love that longs to touch us
Change us
Interact daily with us
…I feel it.
That’s how I know that love is real.
