Love Lives Here

"Love Lives Here" by emerging artist Fania Simon

Supper eaten – dishes washed

Today’s long hours of toil

Wind down like the clock

We will find our rest this night

I look around me at this

Humble, sturdy house

And my heart smiles with contentment

… For love lives here

Love lives here

In the very mortar between the bricks

It has seeped into the walls which

Echo our laughter

Absorb our tears

It has reinforced the framework

The protective rafters which cover us

Keeping all within safe

While storms rage without

Love lives here

Circling around us at the mealtime table

As we join our hands in prayer to give thanks

While we work, talk and play

Affection grows here daily

Even as we sometimes disagree

We can do so with respect

Taking care not to trample

That which has been cultivated with such great care

I lay my head upon the pillow

Waiting for sleep to take me drifting

The quiet house around me

Creaks, as it settles into sleep

Happily, I will float onward to the Land of Nod

For I know in my heart that in this place

From which I launch my craft

… Love lives here indeed