“You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.”
-Rumi
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Another sleepless night
Praying to God,
Asking to remember
The point of love.
Just one more broken heart
Done with dreaming,
Grieving on the ashes
Of what once was.
Will there be a moment
Where love brings light,
Escaping duality
Forever more?
One day the war will end
Against ourselves,
Listening to language
Known by the Soul.
Days of darkness are an inevitability for those who choose the commitment of love.
Love is associated with the highs of union, peak experience and intimacy.
But finding love in unconditional form also means understanding its shadow side.
Rejection, heartbreak and grief.
Three pillars essential to all of mankind’s character development.
Every relationship you ever engage in will inevitably end in heartbreak or death.
Even if we have yet to acknowledge this, we already know it on the deepest love.
Love inevitably means pain, yet this doesn’t stop us from holding it as the highest ideal.
What about love makes it worth the pain?
Surely, life would be easier by avoiding the depths of despair love is bound to bring?
A world devoid of love is a world devoid of meaning.
Meaning (n.) - c. 1300, meninge, "sense, that which is intended to be expressed."
Without expressions of love, what purpose would there be to move through the darkness towards light?
Relationships are the purest example of love, as the commitment and vulnerability required exposes our heart to the potentials of pain.
However, from them we can remember a love that has always lived inside ourselves, just waiting to be recognized.
Even when you find your heart in a moment of despair, when you’re asking what is the point of continuing to feel pain, just remember the potentials love can bring.
“For every dark night, there is a brighter day.”
What hurts today will forge into your greatest strength tomorrow.
Let yourself take the time you need to heal.
But promise yourself one thing:
Never give up on love.
It’s all we’ll ever truly have.
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