To Love with the Tides
Michelle Elise Shock 1988 (Winter Park, Fl)
To love…. what does that mean?
To me, I think of the ocean. One may try to put the ocean in a bottle, but all you truly obtain is salt water, contained in a tiny glass jar. Once within the bottle, the magic and power behind that naturally magnificent force, that which makes it so wonderous, is lost. You simply have a reminder to hold, to grasp, to place one’s attachments onto. It becomes a projection of what WAS loved.
I no longer wish to put anyone in a bottle. If the tides bring someone’s journey in far enough to share a life with me, I’ll gladly flow in alignment with another, but should they go out again…. I want to love them as I would the ocean tides themselves.
To me…. That’s what it means to truly love.
About this poem
A reflection on loving without expectations or demand
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Submitted by MichelleEliseShock on November 25, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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