Acceptance

i think of you and i lose all my words. i know not what to say… how to express.
thoughts swirl.. emotions dance about like leaves in the autumn wind.
i try to understand yet i long to let go of the need to understand.

you are. i am. what will be, will be.

The power of love

why does my love for you have to be analyzed and considered and analyzed again? can i not just love another. can i not love fifty people? is it not possible to love myself and all others. and not to have this questioned or challenged or disbelieved.

it is true, my friend, that i love you. i have so much love inside of me to give. i walk around overflowing, heart on sleeve, kindness i hold in my outstretched hand. all for you. for all of you.
i do not want to fear giving.

fear you taking and needing and still wanting more.
i can love you, but i cannot fill you. you must fill yourself my friend.

fear you not understanding, hiding or running away.
i can love you, but only if you let me. you must be open my friend.

fear you trying too hard to understand me or read me.
I can love you, but you must just accept me, my friend.

all i want to do is to love
freely, openly, endlessly, unconditionally.

it is simple enough.

Reaching

it was up there on the highest shelf. and i couldn't touch it without dragging a chair into the room and climbing up and standing on my tiptoes and reaching. and even still it was hard. that is where i kept my adoration for you. not so easily accessible, but always there. safe and comforting and out of the way.

sometimes we hide love in the strangest places