I wanted to post this during the Valentine's day season but I was experiencing technical difficulties with my Internet. So, for your consideration here is my take on loving, losing and self-love.
In the silence of my solace
I learn to love you
Not because you are perfect
Because you are you.
In the quiet of my contemplation
I learn to love myself
For who I am
Despite what I think I lack.
It has been said
That love is wasted on the young.
And the older I get
I find it to be true.
When I was 20
Love meant a pretty face, a beautiful smile
A halo of hearts dancing around our heads
And stars in our eyes.
Now all I expect of love
Is a gentle touch, an open heart
Words of respect
And honor
I guess I should thank you
For this solitude in which I abide
Without It I’d have waited to learn
That it’s okay to love you
But not more than I love me.
I’d have never realized
That by embracing my aloneness
I’d find the true beginning of love
And witness its birth inside of me.
And so I cling to the silence
For as long as it must last
I invite the quiet until it gives way to laughter
I enjoy the solitude as it guides me to love
And I love you still
In the midst of it all
Just not more than me
I learn to love you
Not because you are perfect
Because you are you.
In the quiet of my contemplation
I learn to love myself
For who I am
Despite what I think I lack.
It has been said
That love is wasted on the young.
And the older I get
I find it to be true.
When I was 20
Love meant a pretty face, a beautiful smile
A halo of hearts dancing around our heads
And stars in our eyes.
Now all I expect of love
Is a gentle touch, an open heart
Words of respect
And honor
I guess I should thank you
For this solitude in which I abide
Without It I’d have waited to learn
That it’s okay to love you
But not more than I love me.
I’d have never realized
That by embracing my aloneness
I’d find the true beginning of love
And witness its birth inside of me.
And so I cling to the silence
For as long as it must last
I invite the quiet until it gives way to laughter
I enjoy the solitude as it guides me to love
And I love you still
In the midst of it all
Just not more than me