Love
Love ✨
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for right.
I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our love is enduring.
Rich, complex, full of life.
Our love is inspiring and rare.
Made in the place where others only dream of.
Our love is hard and confusing.
Pushing us beyond our limits and what we thought was possible.
Our love is comforting and comfortable.
Acceptance and patience and friendship.
Our love is scary and vulnerable.
Never before have we been this deep in the dark unknown of our own souls.
Our love is light and free.
Our cheeks and tummies hurt and our hearts sing with laughter.
Our love is slow and fast.
It burns hot and yet never dies.
Out love is sadness and envy.
Breaking us open to make space for even more love to come in.
Our love is not logical.
We make sense of the madness through touch and play.
Our love is insatiable.
Craving more, never getting enough, the obsession encompassing.
Our love is passionate.
Fire and air a storm of intensity like no other.
Our love is grateful.
We are blessed to experience each other and continue to choose the chaos every day.
Our love is ours.
Though others may not understand it and nor do we, no one can take it from us.
I love you
- Lauren Renee
