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If you think you know me in real life, no you don't.

Unconditional love is strange. The more the conditions defy your desires, the more certain you can be that this is what you have.

Allow currents beyond your control to take you where they will.

Watch your selfish desires drift further and further away, and feel grateful for what you have.

You may grieve for what might have been, but you wouldn’t have it any other way.

You can love someone, even if you can't won't don't have them.

You can love them, even if they’re not yours never will be.

But to surrender to desire is to chase your hopes and highest expectations.

Chase them right towards the fire.

Passion and peace are oft at odds.

If you pursue things you want but don’t need, you may find the things you need are harder to hold onto.

Grip the hottest coals most tightly, you’re most likely to be burned.

Yet sometimes the light of that same fire can guide your soul where it needs to go, even if you can’t possess the very thing that keeps it burning.

Lessons, Not Regrets

My/mine
Back in time
Heard the way
You sang your lies

Believed your words
Took them as true
My biggest mistake
Was trusting you

You told me what
I wanted to hear
Said what it took
to draw me near

Who’d you hurt more,
Him, you, or me?
What other outcome
Could you possibly see?

An age ago
You got your way
Then threw me aside
After you led me astray

I wouldn’t choose
to participate
but when I figured it out

It was way too late

Should have realized
Should have seen the signs
I should have known you
You were crossing lines

You never cared about me
But I cared deeply for you
I suppose you got just
what you wanted to

You never bothered
To speak the truth
We can blame your behavior
On naivety and youth

But you took from me
The right to choose
And for doing that
I hope you lose

Any sense you had
That you were good
You were so self centered
Not misunderstood

You pushed him aside
And you lied to me
Surreptitious is the way
you chose to be

You couldn’t get what you wanted
If you’d told the truth
Surrounded by people
All better than you

You’re a deceiver
And I hope you see
You’re everything wrong
With humanity

I know where you are
I’ve looked and I’ve seen
Sideways is how

Your life has been

All your dreams
Went to waste
And frankly
That is to my taste

I try not to be vengeful,
Petty, or untrue,
But I’m happy to see
What’s become of you

Connecting can be hard. Even when you both walk in with the best intentions, there can be misunderstandings. Intent doesn’t always line up with how you’re received. At some point, intent becomes irrelevant. The current is too fast and you can’t paddle back against it to reach the path you've passed. All you can do is save your energy what you might accomplish ahead and hope that the path you’re on will eventually take you back to what you may have missed.

Fighting ignorance is painful. You’re asking people to fight their own intuition. To rewire their brains to think differently. When you oppose those predispositions, you expose the other person to cognitive dissonance. The firewall the brain develops to reject this dissonance reinforces current paths of thinking and resists change. But if change is what you want, you have to learn to think critically. Criticize everything that doesn’t line up, even if it’s difficult at times.

I’m dying. You’re dying. We’re all dying.

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