Remember those feelings you have on a day you are struggling.
Perhaps standing still.
Perhaps crawling.
And know that others feel that way.
See them when you look around.
You will recognize them.
Instead of building walls
Against them,
Open
Your door
And step outside to meet them.
Step outside and greet them.
Offer compassion.
Offer love.
For we will never get better
If we do not
Lift each other up.
If we all choose to stay behind walls
And defenses
Alone,
We will never
Heal as people.
Alone.
It starts with one mind.
It starts with one heart.
To become love
And let go of anger.
And there the one shares with
Another.
Let go of judgements of strangers.
Then the two become the four
And exponentially
We let go.
Embrace anew
As love recognizes hate
No more.
Alter the tide.
What becomes reality for one
Becomes the reality
For
The Sum.
….
Let not your eyes deceive you
As you look in the mirror.
The blood that we shed
Is no other color
But red.
Strong love.
Quiet love.
Steady love.
His was such the love of a
Gentle
Warrior.
I have been lost
In your eyes for
A thousand lives it seems.
You weave a spell with every breath
And with lips,
Oh so light,
Leave a trail of fire
Upon
My
Skin.
Between us there is no
Memory
Of beginning.
There is only
Sublime existence.
Whispering dawn.
Delicate fingertips
Travel lightly.
Sleepy eyelids
Fluttering,
Dreaming awake.
Tranquil breaths.
Soft voices
Echoing
Sending the night
To rest
With love.
I have kept every letter that you wrote.
I must confess,
I read them from time to time.
My heart swells
As I remember well
Your words even before
The papers unfold.
I grasp them as if they are you,
And hold them to my breast.
It is as though
Doing so might bring you back.
My tears flow.
How I wish you
Had known
How deeply my love was returned.
Raw and gritty.
Poetic and pretty.
We choose our savior
Or poison
And hemorrhage ink.
Black and white.
Flat.
Words a medium through which
We express
Love,
Life,
Hope
And loss.
Alone,
Until they are shared in perfect sequence.
Our secrets no longer our own.
Emotions that have not a singular name;
There we find we are the same.
The cold has left my bones.
The blood is flowing freely
In my chest.
Only love remains
From a summer past.
On a hopeless night,
In a desolate place,
You came to me.
We whispered our names
In such a way
Only
Our
Souls
Would
Understand.
I shed a tear today.
For all the years
I lived
And
Loved
In fear.
And I forgave myself for the mistakes
I made.
For the feelings I kept
Trapped
In
My
Throat.
For the times I gave too much
Of
Me.
I allowed myself,
To
Love
Me
For every little moment
That I had traded bits of my soul
To
Keep
The
Peace.
Truth be told,
I
Shed
More than
A
Tear.
Him,
Leaning into her.
She,
Wanted to run.
To arm her defenses and threaten war.
Instead,
She sighed.
Instead,
She loved.
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