Of Love

I have loved

a love of empathy

our connection, our beautiful children

I have loved mind to mind

heart to heart

across the world, a beautiful flame

I have loved

a beautiful soul

with a broken heart, that I couldn't mend

I have loved

some who have broken my heart

and still I love

across boundaries

across time

In spite of, and because of all I have loved.

Quotes

"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom, through the awful grace of God." ~Aeschyles

"Men want to speak, Woman want to be heard."

"The truth you speak has no past and no future... it is, and that's all it needs to be." ~Illusions

"In order to live, free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice." ~Illusions

"Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life, so, aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something." ~Thoreau

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be, now put foundations under them." ~Henry David Thoreau

Nameless

Nameless

I discarded my name

to take yours.

You took mine away

and didn't value it

tossed it aside

I was left with no name.

So I picked up an old one

It feels strange

Cold

Like I'm wearing old clothing

That I dug up from the attic

Musty and unused

Not quite right

I thought I had outgrown this name

But I guess I can make it fit.