* LOVE IN THE SHADOWS

Do you know what real love is? That type of love that yearns to protect and nurture regardless of the life it chooses? Love that harnesses a desire to hold our passions, secrets, and wishes, in love with the self of someone else, watching that love drift off to nowhere, hoping each day the one you truly trust is open enough to share this awareness and finds you.

The ones who came before us and showed you how to love, how to be gentle, and free, well, this is us; this is where I am. Feeling no shame in knowing what real love is and obeying the universe because I understand all I can do is watch, wait, and be as patient as the farmer awaiting the gift of new seasons.

You are the flower, the fruit, with this alluring nectar, I craving to embrace the warmest parts of its flesh. I am in love with you, and that's all I need be, like the seed in the silence of stillness, where I gladly reside in your womb of swaddled warmth.

I want to be seen; I am patient, so patient. Every day a new opportunity to wake to see what happens with us. These are the blessings in disguise we seem to find when we slow down and then proceed to stop, and we are granted the gift of silence. Then we remember the child we once were and how they have always known how you are meant to be loved, as we are now transmuting that energy and awareness into a rebirth of how one should genuinely be loved.

Respect yourself, give yourself permissions to heal, and set your pace to your boundaries, fall in love with that you; the one no one else can see larking in the shadows, as a seed, nowhere to go but inward and outward for the world to believe. Real love comes with clarity to be present in this dual awakening of polarities. Just being seen as "you" would desire to be seen by the conditioned you who carries and caters to your emotional insecurities.

When we can openly love and share this insight with ourselves, it is then when we will be able to recognize the depth of love in the shadows of lust. Empathy is an unconditional love that is love unseen; this sort of love is when we know what real love means and how we are finally ready to be free.

Love,

JAH