you get none of my sweetness
the resolve it took in choosing you
none of my comfort
none of my fierceness (didn’t you know how much I was carrying?)
you get none of my softness
the strength it took to call off the wolves
none of me
just how you wanted
did you think i was a city
Quote
… i am not a hotel room. i am home.
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
so don’t come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me…
— Rupi Kaur
This > That
I wake up every day so grateful
That I love my dog more than I want to jump in front of a train
That I want to love and be loved
More than I want to jump in front of a train
Because every single day I really, really
Really want to jump in front of a train
more spirit, less religion.
Spirit is what connects you to the universe and everyone in it. Religion aims to divide and rule, with the promise of some ultimate reward that never comes in this life, and not until you’ve destroyed yourself or someone else. Religion of all kinds has been the bloodiest government in the history of our civilization.
I’m thoroughly disappointed in the world. In its actions and in its reactions this week alone. Yet each day I am relentlessly optimistic.
I am cynical, yet hopeful.
It’s exhausting.
Sometimes
Sometimes your heart just pours out of you. Even when the world has given you every single reason to hide.
It doesn’t know just how much is sitting inside you. You have more love than most… And you created it all from scratch. No one gave it to you, you had no example to go by. You just knew that there had to be something, something that felt so good that you wanted to give it to everyone. So no one ever had to feel what you felt.
So much love it makes you cry sometimes. So much it makes your heart just pour out of you. The pain, the empathy, the mourning, the absolute joy, the solidarity, the awe… So much love you don’t know what to do with it. So,
What do you do with it?