Creating Wonder Together
Love is a collaborative work of art. Both get to decide what it should look like.
Month: December 2018
Intimacy
People think that intimacy is about sex. But intimacy is about truth.
When you realize you can tell someone your truth, when you can show yourself to them,
when you can stand in front of them and their response is “you’re safe with me,” that’s intimacy.
Love
Love is the relinquishment of logic
The willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns
We either yield to it or we fight it
But we cannot meet it halfway
Tree of Life
This road is hard, the path is long
It takes a person to live it strong
No compromise, nothing left to kill
Only guts, and a heart that will most certainly spill
It’s a quest that goes deep, a quest that calls you by name
Your soul speaks now, to stop playing your game
So speak the truth, let it cut like a knife. And carve your name in the tree of life.
Only Love is Enough
I miss you is not enough
Only love can be enough
In love lives commitment
In commitment lives truth
In truth lives passion
In passion lives intimacy
In intimacy lives trust
In trust lives joy
And in joy lives love
The Earth’s Heartbeat
Happiness streams through the air
Crisp air fills my lungs
Joy cools my insides
The planet’s heartbeat heard deep in our bones
I see who I am here on this earth
I own my place, I stand tall
Proud of what the seed has grown
This creature, this man, this trice of grace
Never again shall I doubt I was planted
Like all others, for a purpose
Unique under the same sun
I will blossom in full
And explode outward with love
Who We Really Are
When we go into the depths of our heart and face the wonderful and painful truths that lie there, it’s then, and there, that we find our destiny, who we really are.
Secrets
I think this may be unrealistic, but I’ve wonder if partners can have a relationship, where there are no secrets? I don’t just mean just plain vanilla secrets. I mean two people that lay themselves bare to each other.
They share rogue attractions, hidden hopes, dark desires, shabby needs, selfish wants, even that which disturbs us of the other. They admit insecurities, uncomfortable inklings, even allow themselves to be confronted on blind spots. More importantly, they admit to themselves each other, those deepest wounds they carry inside.
These “secrets” then become the garden of their partnership, where they grow endless fruit of acceptance and love and become better humans from one another. They tend the garden together. Raking pebbles so they’re seen and understood. Adjusting rocks and decorating them with vines so as to highlight their strengths versus their barriers. Tending around boulders; working with them and accepting them as permanent in the garden.
This garden is a place where each person dares to be vulnerable, not threatened by the other person’s “dark” interiors. What could be harder to do together then to expose the other to your shadowy interiors, difficult even to admit to ourselves? It’s a radical honesty. But one that could lead to becoming better for the other and growing in deep joy and self-acceptance.
I think we may need to learn how to do this with ourselves. Face our ourselves and we can face others.