green leaf trees on forest

Love is not on my mind anymore

By now, you have both settled into a comfortable step side by side while you are walking deeper and deeper into the forest where bushes and wildlife gracefully steps out of your way to create a path that was not there before.  “You seem unsettled.” You huff. You’d do worse if you dared.  Love …?  No, love is truly not on my mind anymore.  I kept looking for it in all the imaginable places within myself. The love I have received in this life has nourrished me to be who I am today, and yet, it’s as if I have already completely emptied out all the places within in me …

green leaf trees on forest

THREE

A wall forms in front of you and your toes are painfully reminded of their limited motion.  There is no sight. There is no light.  And yet, you feel the vastness of the limit stretching outfor millennia, rushing towards you.  Did your grandmother not sing of such places to you?  Are you lost about what to do next?  Are you not the next hero with a sword?  Are you not your own dragon?  Protective of your treasure, misguided in all your knowing? More voices strain behind you.  Whispering in a language you do not understand, but the tone…  The tone makes you want to run away.  And yet, you cannot …