If I could have any superpower
it would be the power to love.
To love even when I don’t feel like it;
to love when all the odds are against me.
They say that a genius
is someone who sees things
other people don’t see.
I want to see the love
in a thorny patch of weeds;
I want to find the softest touch
behind the angry words.
Let me be a genius
not of science but of love;
I’d cherish the spaces in between
each strand of DNA;
I’d love the human mystery
with a beating human heart.
If I could have have any superpower
it would be the power to love.
