To be the love we seek is a daunting and difficult task. We seek shelter in another’s arms yet we rarely hold onto ourselves. We seek a kiss from soft lips instead of kissing the mirror as children do. We seek words to affirm the depths in our hearts, yet we hold those words from ourselves all too often. We seek a gentle push forward. We freeze when the world asks us to push ourselves into the change. We hesitate when we know the rude truth of all things. We seek flowers cut in a vase because we refuse to grow them with our own hands. We seek and realize somewhere along the way that like Ralph Waldo Emerson references in Self-Reliance,
We carry it with us, or find it not.
Love is carried within us, so if we cannot find it in our hearts, we will not find it in the world out beyond.
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Previously published on medium
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