How best to love you?

How am I best to love you?

Sometimes it is difficult to let go

Of the hurting thing

And when you know disappointment and sorrow

To see someone else

You care for and about

Suffering and struggling

Hurts you too

Like a wound that smarts

Even inside of the body that longs

For the original kin

People tell me I need to let go

And there is truth in that

There are so many things I wish to change

That lie outside of my power

How do I let you go?

How do I stop thinking about you?

And if this hurts me too

Shouldn’t the impulse for self protection

Be stronger?

I do not know

But love is love is love

Even when there is hurt

Love still lives on

Perhaps even more deeply buried

Within those souls who must

Turn their back on pain

In order to thrive

In order to find true peace

In order to find a healthier way

To be fully alive