Is ‘approve’ another word for ‘love’?
So that, when we say ‘I love you! ’ there’s the sense,
‘It’s good – I’m glad – that you are in this world! –
that you exist! ’ – so that, to love, becomes
an act of will; creative affirmation?
The sense of holiness; and music; sunlight; lemon curd –
from these, ‘approval’ stretches out a list
that may be boundless, as it sings them into praise;
approving even dreams into reality:
as if to kneel, self to self, with God
and, eye to eye, both say, ‘I’m glad that you exist..’
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[leaning gratefully on the writings of Josef Pieper]
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/this-life-is-on-approval/
