Except that I love you
and want you to heal
and am more patient than you.
Except that you want me
and I want you to
want you to want me.
Except that you need me
and I don’t need you
and here we are now.
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A Soul's Walk 
Oh! This could break a girl’s heart! Not mine. I need nothing but my dog.
Miss Story,
What if your dog was the one speaking?
-Soul Walker
Not realistic.
Reality has little to do with it, it’s poetry.
Poetry is not real?
Poetry is as true and pure as the heart of God and therefore may bare little resemblance to things perceived as real.
It is true that it is highly unlikely that your dog will speak to you. I do hope that if she does it will be in verse though.
Also, this response made me laugh. 😉
The school of complex love is hard and precious.
Relax,
“Complex love” is not a term I have heard before.
-Soul Walker
It’s one of those terms rarely seen because it’s so inherently true. Maybe all love is complex. Like showing up for your mother’s last day, last breaths, watching her actively die, yet not being able to say, “I love you,” because you’re angry and now about suffering and death, too. But the fact is, one could’ve avoided it, left it to someone else, along with the previous 9 months of care, along with the rest of the 43 years of showing up when others did not. Showing up even to the last bridge of life, even though it might wreck one’s faith. Like showing up to a Gethsemane or a Pieta, except without feeling the sacred– only ripping fear. Love is a doing, not a feeling. Like resurrection. It is complex.
While I understand that many situations are complex I also know that sometimes we say a thing is complex when really we just mean it is hard. I do not pretend to speak to the situation you just mentioned of course but I do know that often we tell ourselves that things are complicated when really they are not… but simple rarely equates to easy in real life.
I read this…and then I read this with the words “accept” instead of “except” now that, that was cold.
It wouldn’t be that cold if God was the one speaking.
You are right…quite right.
QueridaJ,
How do you prefer to be addressed online by the way? Let me know so that I can try and get that right too.
-Soul Walker
Hey QueridaJ is good, thanks for asking =) about your previous question…I haven’t found another place to move to…for now i’m just being chagrined with the ads…if it worsens then i’ll start the search for another place I guess.