MILESTONES IN LOVE.by G.P.D

I dreamed of love that feels like a drug,

That takes you high and makes true all fantasies

Instead I found love that comforts you like a blanket

And roots you to the ground, steady and strong

Love took the self away from myself

Took me into the unknown where I was scared and in awe

Yet love brought me back changed and unchanged

Love grew and with it so did I

Love was a feeling I thought, something that is felt and carried

But now I know love is a way of being and doing things

It is the essential reason of “why” we are

Love is pure energy and a drive

Love is also a person, who makes you feel

You are not alone, Yet you are

Because in life’s journeys we have different lessons waiting

Love is quiet and calm and angry and raging

But most of all love is patience

And love is hope and trust and everything which makes living for another day possible

Love sees all, love sees you in entirety

Loves pushes and pulls and holds when you are broken

Love helps you go beyond your capacities

And still have some strength left

Love teaches you new languages, not just of regions unknown

But also of the heart, the smile and the body, and the soul

Love truly sees the soul, draws into the well that is bottomless and

Makes you compassionate

Love makes you feel you are enough, you are not small

You are not inefficient, you are not stupid or silly or any of those negative things

You think you are. They are just part of you,

Which you will shed like old clothes, unnecessary, a hindrance,

But hold on to because you are so familiar and dependent on them

And so love is naked,

A lover’s body perfect, no matter what scars or shapes they have

No matter what color, what fragrance and what strength

Because when love touches your body,

Every particle of it shines the light within

Every movement is a dance of ecstasy

And every silence and gaze is in admiration

Of the reflection of the soul’s perfection, its timelessness

Its limitlessness and of love itself.

And yes such love makes you want to be around love

All the time.

Without knowing that you yourself are love’s form and content

You have been touched and transformed by your lover

And your lover is within you as you.

The magic of that is to be discovered slowly

Like a bee sucks the honey out of the universal flower

Such powerful love is not destructive, it can only build

And what is left behind or broken down, or thrown away

Are only unnecessary burdensome portions of your sadness

Leaving you light, your heart full and calm and joyous

Leaving you open to miracles and opens your ears and heart to stories

You then are meant to change lives and see life

Without wanting to change it,

You are able to see beauty without damaging it.

You are able to love without expecting anything in return.

And that is the security of love. That is the god within everyone.

“I met the you in me and fell in love with me. I met me in you and fell in love with you.”