“Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together, yet not too near together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Exactly how I feel, but I didn't know how to say it. I am in love...deeply, but not too head-over-heels because we are still born alone when we arrive in this world. And we choose to share ourselves, our emotions, our journeys with another, but the truth is that you are man and I am woman. We walk next to each other, not in each other.
It's not a guarded, uneasy position...its a position of understanding that some day we shall pass from this earth and we can only go alone as well. And in life, everything is a choice, it might be a hard choice, or one with layers of consequences or sequences of "predictable" events attached, but in the end - the motivation is a choice. I choose you, my love, to share my life journey with. And if you are say no more to this and go your way, I am shall only be understanding, humble, and acknowledge that you are a separate entity. If we are truly one - one could not leave without the other.
But I still love strongly. I still love passionately. I love....and I am happy to love with one another.
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