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
Emerging From The Dark Night 
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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Its such a painful thing though isn’t it? Then again I think if you had a love like you did then on one level your souls are always bound together somehow but the breaking of the earthly connection is so intense. ❤
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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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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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