Needle and Thread

All the blood and all the sweat
That we invested to be loved
Follows us into our end,
Where we begin to understand

That we are made of love,
And all the beauty stemming from it.
We are made of love,
And every fracture caused by the lack of it.

"You were a million years of work,"
said God and His angels, with needle and thread.
They kissed your head and said,
"You're a good kid and you make us proud.
So just give your best and the rest will come,
and we'll see you soon."

All the blood and all the sweat
that we invested to be loved
follows us into our end,
where we begin to understand

That maybe Hollywood was right:
when the credits have rolled and the tears have dried,
the answers that we have been dying to find
are all pieced together and, somehow,
made perfectly mine.

We are made of love,
and all the beauty stemming from it.
we are made of love,
and every fracture caused by the lack of love.
-Sleeping At Last