What is love? Bell Hooks says that, All awakening to love is a spiritual awakening.”<\/p>\n
I was fooled by this once. The allure of my most reverent desire to fall for the spirit before all else.\u00a0 No, I will trust my most basic instincts and sense. The sense of sight however vain I will trust in concert with taste touch and heart. To venture past the five senses is a great feat indeed. I tried to give spirit a chance yet, it too is as elusive and misleading as the five senses.\u00a0 I will be more discerning and listen equally to the mind and heart, the left and right, the conservative and the liberal.<\/p>\n
I will not go into matters of the heart blindly. I will walk in love and not fall or trip along the way without taking note and stepping up or back when needed.<\/p>\n
What is right will be clear as the sun and as regenerative and live giving as the sea, who has yet to fail me even when I have been burned, bitten, and bejeweled by the ocean and its intoxicating love potion.<\/p>\n
Receiving the sweetest sleep, the tenderest kisses, and the most mysterious of gifts.<\/p>\n
Sing me a sweet lullaby and love me unconditionally. I do this too only with you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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