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Love will have its way

Surely if we open our hearts

Fully to love

There is going to be a time

We experience the flood of pain and despair

As the one we love is taken away

For it is said that for everything

There is a time

And time and tide wait for no man

And yet we are also

Asked to be an active participant

And to ride the swell

Having no ultimate control as to whether

It beaches us

In heaven or hell

For life it is true

Is just an endless play

Of dualities

Of happiness and sadness

Oscillating

With freedom and confinement

Joy and pain

And the only way to insulate our hearts

That remains

Is to stop the flow of life

From riding us through

To take out the knife

And sever our connection to everything

And then to enfold ourselves safely

Within the embrace

Of a living death?

And in the end

It remains for each heart to choose

How to ride the tumultuous swings

Of win and lose

And how to bear the awesome truth that

To love fully

Is to embrace the possibility of loss fully

To know that one day

Love may bring pain

Loss from gain

As we are forced to surrender

The soul of someone

That was never ours

To tie down or claim

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Published by: emergingfromthedarknight

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4 thoughts on “Love will have its way”

  1. I totally resonated with last stanza here, the huge questions of how we are to handle love and then loss !!
    “To love fully
    Is to embrace the possibility of loss fully
    To know that one day
    Love may bring pain
    As we are forced to surrender
    The soul of someone
    That was never ours
    To tie down or claim”

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      1. I’ve ridden all the pain levels, and now I’m on a plateau of being comfortable with my loss, and I now seem to be able to cope with my every life and the odd situations that arise……

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      2. That is wonderful Ivor. It is a process… there is life after loss. My Dad used to always say this. “just remember life is for the living and life goes on” sometimes though it takes time to learn to live again. ❤

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