since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world
my blood approves,
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don't cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids' flutter which says
we are for each other: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life's not a paragraph
And death I think is no parenthesis
e.e. cummings
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Don't Call Me Bitter
Love is not an easy feeling to put into words. Nor is loyalty, trust, or happiness.
But perhaps it's what it all adds up to. Not love as it is described with such shallowness in popular magazines, and or television media, but the kind of love that is fostered by lovers, parents, sons and daughters, and the dearest of friends. True love is affection, respect, support, commitment, and sacrifice. It is one of the medium where the act of giving is not forced or asked, but happens fluidly. The expression of true love requires an acute awareness of one's own strength and absolute faith in the relationship. It's very cliché to say this but it takes incalculable strength to be aware of who you truly are and to stick by it.
It is the time you've spent with your other that makes them so important to you. It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important, as someone once said.
It is the journey that is most important, and who you travel with. It's never the destination. While it's easy forget, everything in life is always fleeting. Nothing we have or will have is worth hurting anyone for. And even though it's futile to try to hold everything together, you have to remember that they're all just people. If you truly try to love the ones most important or closest, you won't ever lose anything. We cannot help but profit from our honest sacrifices.
And although some days it may end in tears, or someone important and dear to you may walk out of your life, or when you get your heart kicked into your stomach, it was the journey that made everything worth it. Love people for who they are now.
If you try to love the ones that matter, you won't lose anything
But perhaps it's what it all adds up to. Not love as it is described with such shallowness in popular magazines, and or television media, but the kind of love that is fostered by lovers, parents, sons and daughters, and the dearest of friends. True love is affection, respect, support, commitment, and sacrifice. It is one of the medium where the act of giving is not forced or asked, but happens fluidly. The expression of true love requires an acute awareness of one's own strength and absolute faith in the relationship. It's very cliché to say this but it takes incalculable strength to be aware of who you truly are and to stick by it.
It is the time you've spent with your other that makes them so important to you. It is the time you have lost for your rose that makes your rose so important, as someone once said.
It is the journey that is most important, and who you travel with. It's never the destination. While it's easy forget, everything in life is always fleeting. Nothing we have or will have is worth hurting anyone for. And even though it's futile to try to hold everything together, you have to remember that they're all just people. If you truly try to love the ones most important or closest, you won't ever lose anything. We cannot help but profit from our honest sacrifices.
And although some days it may end in tears, or someone important and dear to you may walk out of your life, or when you get your heart kicked into your stomach, it was the journey that made everything worth it. Love people for who they are now.
If you try to love the ones that matter, you won't lose anything
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