Love And Loss
In order to fully open our hearts to love,
we must accept the reality of loss.
After all, at some point
in the indeterminable future,
We will Lose
everything that we hold dear.
We can refuse to accept this basic fact of life,
But to do so keeps us from truly living,
And from the depth
Of connection that we so desperately crave.
The only solution is to allow
Ourselves to be fully vulnerable,
Fully naked
With the stark and painful reality of impermanence,
Which includes the reality
of our own eventual death and
The loss of everyone we love.
This is not morbid,
as we have come to believe,
It is part of the dichotomy of life.
Birth and death,
Beauty and ugliness.
To live fully is to embrace it all.
What rises up,
Will fall away…
Of this, we can be certain.
To live with an open heart
Is to embrace life
and death
Equally,
Allowing ourselves to be fully
Vulnerable and naked
With the stark and painful
Reality of impermanence.
In order to fully open our hearts to love,
We must accept the reality of loss.