Love is a Verb
Their eyes look in, mine stay fixed up ahead
In those non-contact moments where the robots turn red
Sometimes there’s a coin or a school lunch ham roll
But always, without fail, it leaves a scar on my soul.
Just a gap through the window and a meeting of eyes
One human moment may reveal a surprise
‘coz that smile from the sidewalk, from the down and out on the kerb
Might help us remember that love is a verb.
You see, no words can replace one selfless action
And fraction by fraction we can create traction
Little by sticker, a small act there and here
When we act on what scares us, we reduce the world’s fear.
While the stickers for some might be just a small token
They make us feel great when we sit with the broken
Because when we act from the depth of our feeling
We might assist others, but it’s us we are healing.
We look at this mountain of homelessness need
And when we can’t find the words, just do a good deed
Because love moves those mountains, it helps people to cope
And it does all of this through the spreading of hope.
Sometimes we’re confused, we don’t know where to start
But we can’t go far wrong if we start from the heart
This movement’s about doing, it’s no marketing blurb
Because you can say what you like, but Love is a Verb.
[ So, while the world holds its breath from a virus Corona
And the debacle continues in the Cape around SONA
We have music by Janis and get hugs in the drive
On this perfect evening we feel so alive.]
We have nothing to lose, so let’s give it a try
The trapped barbs in the wire could be set free to fly
And maybe the secret to the art of pure living
Lies in not what we get, but in what we are giving?
‘Coz if good people do nothing, then nothing gets done
Yet small simple actions clear the rain from the sun
Bright moments of doing and a little mind shifting
And those ‘down and outs’ become our own uplifting.
Perhaps it is true that love knows no end
For we get so much more than we ever could spend
And when those uplifted smile from the kerb
Their smile will remind us that Love is a Verb.
[ So, to Kirsten and Andrew, we all give our thanks
You take people in and you fill up our tanks
You really are a true inspiration
It’s people like you who make us a great Nation.]