Sisterly Love
- Based on 1 Corinthians 13

Love is patient.
It is not easily angered.
Interrupt me while I’m reading
and I’m guaranteed to snap.

Love is kind
and keeps no record of wrongs.
I’ll always remind you:
you’ve made this mistake before.

Love does not envy;
it is not self-seeking.
We have the same parents
but I’d do anything for the thin gene.

Love is not proud
and never boasts.
Let me just remind you
that I, at least, got the brains.

Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.

Love always protects.
I’d do anything
to stop you
dating him again.

Love always trusts.
I just wish
that every time I did
it didn’t feel like a mistake.

Love always hopes.
Somehow I know that
one day you will be
all that you can be.

Love always perseveres.
Even when it hurts;
especially when it hurts,
I want to be there.

Love never fails
but I do.

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Author's Note: For the first half of the poem, the first two lines is either a direct or almost quotation from the Corinthians passage. For the second half, the first line is a direct or almost quotation. The two-line stanza is all a direct quotation. In the passage, it serves to break up the style of the previous statements and the following ones. So, it is deliberate here.

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