NaPoWriMo Day 7 - Graveyard Shift

Graveyard Shift

You wake up with the setting sun,
darkness calling you to rise, as I
wind down for the night, replacing
you in the already warmed bed.
Your day begins as mine ends,
tomorrow it all begins anew, I wake,
you sleep, but that time we do share,
my lunch, your dinner, between shifts,
I would not trade for the world.

NaPoWriMo Day 8 - Sanctity of Love

Sanctity of Love

I hear on the news, rants
and raves, of how groups
seek to destroy the sanctity
of the institution of marriage
but they neglect to mention
the word love, as if poison
and should it cross scowling
lips they would surely die

This seems so formal, professional
as if marriage is a business
and God the CEO, ever striving
to please the stockholders
but love is primal, passionate
without concern for profits
much like the God of the Bible
"because God is love."

Webster claims that sanctity
is Godliness; Peter claims
that God is love, why oh why
then is the Godliness of marriage
so filled with hate, malice,
and the desire to control
what love is pure, what love
deserves to be celebrated

Love is more important
than listening to the windy
whispers of hypocrites
those ungodly servants of God.
So let the politicians
keep their institutions
but stand up to defend
the sanctity of love.