Thursday, December 20, 2007

Sustainable Love

We expect so much from love
We want it to make us happy
We want it to take care of the rest of our lives
When....it comes

Love is always here
Yet it doesn't recognize itself
With all our conditions

It can only be love if so and so is cute
It can only be love if it is what makes me look good
It can only be love if it is what I wanted it to be,

We don't even let love surprise us anymore
We expect so much from it that when it is here we walk right by it like it wasn't there
A person tells you they love you and we even find a way to not believe them
And continue treating them as though they do not

We will believe that someone who gives us no attention loves us, because we desire them
And then someone who speaks in love to us, we discount
That alone is a lot more telling in itself

We respect those who don't love and want them too, that is the challenge
And we release those who love us because we don't respect them for loving us, because we don't love ourselves yet!
That is a no win situation

Love is love is love
Yes, I said this before
And Yes, it is worth saying again

Living in the moment allows you to love without expectation
That in this moment, I love my job, I am not waiting for another to love again
I love my spouse, I am not going to let my misunderstanding taint my love and thoughts of them
I love my children, even on days when they don't love so much themselves

Love is the challenge of our souls discovery
To say I love myself too much and others too much to want to take away from that
I don't want to hurt the "us" we have become in life to win for a moment
Our life is a series of moments
I understand that now
If someone came to me and took away from me that I came to with love, It would start to pierce our trust
I don't want to do that

Go to those you love and remember this is what love is
The way you are now with love is the way you will be in any new situation that comes along with love
Love isn't postponed or better because you do not know the recipient yet
That is a trick of the mind that the grass really is greener on the other side
The grass is already green and if you can't see that now, it is even harder to see it coming

Love is a state of mind
Love is a way of being
Love is what we turn it into
And Love is not a chore
Love breeds greater love
Since understanding love breeds greater understanding of many more things
Love is patient
Love does not compete
Love is open ended
And Love is not timed or has an expiration date

WE have taken liberty on many angles of life
Yet love is still most important to all of us

It is time to let love be what it is
A healer of us
A natural medication to our souls
The glue that bonds us together
And love doesn't just disappear, we disappear

No more fooling ourselves with love
It is too strong an emotion to say No to, yet we haven't learned how to say Yes to it all the way
We have left love in the middle of the road and sometimes it gets hit and it doesn't understand why
Yet it always comes back fighting for itself

Let Love teach us in many more ways who we are
It has a lot to teach us
And if we can just say Yes, that we will live in our moments, understand the love that is present
It will slow us down from searching so feverishly for something we are standing in front of
It will give us the will to look forward to future love as we share love in this day
And it will allow us to see future love when it arrives

It will give us more to share of ourselves rather than expect so much from it
And the rewards of the truth of love is yours
We can only attract to us, the completeness we feel
Understanding love in this way, can only attract love in this way to you
It is called recognition

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