Featured Poet James Lawson Moore

Good afternoon! Today’s feature is poet James Lawson Moore, returning with another fantastic poem.

LOVE RESPONSIBLY

“To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.” –Leonard Cohen

Who would’ve known that

loving the world would require

so much sacrifice?

I guess you can’t know joy

without pain–

just enough to keep my heart open,

before I fall out completely.

Not so much that I forget

what love needs from me…

James Lawson Moore is a poet and occasional essayist living with his wife and pets in Chase City, Virginia. He has two chapbooks, Our Lady of the Locomotion and Unsocial, available from Alien Buddha Press.