Promise Me

Promise me now,

Promise me always

Even as they strike you down with a myriad of hatred and violence,

Even as they dismember and destroy you that no man can ever be your enemy.

The only thing worth anything is love;

Unconditional, invincible, limitless love.

One day when you face this world

Unburdened by the tyranny of fear and hate and greed

Your fellow men will behold you.

Across a thousand cycles of living and dying in full bloom

Your joy will become eternal.

No sun or moon that ever rises, will ever see it fade.