Reasons Why

I do not need reasons why

not to know or love someone.

I do not want or need to be

told my heart is wasting time.

Purest love is not a love that

waits or lets itself be burned

but is a love that understands:

the need for a community,

the beauty of our memory,

and the knowing that a man

who causes pain is still a man

who needs pure love the most of all.

This is why my light stays on

and all my doors are open, still,

to every man who's hurt my heart.

I have armed myself for this,

armed with tea and coffee for

all the souls that need to stop

and warm themselves and find

forgiveness, rest and peace,

within these walls and arms.

I do not need to know why I 

mustn't love or hold someone

for if I "mustn't" love someone,

that must be the very thing they,
themselves, need from
someone, most of all.