Love's Reciprocity

Have you ever loved someone so deeply that you drowned in your own fascination with the person who possessed your heart?  Looking back in hindsight, it's amazing how the person you feel so much for, cares very little for you.  Are you just another person's option, when you want to be more than just that?  Putting the person you feel so much for up on a pedestal is the threshold to putting distance between you and that person.  In time, your praise and adoration will leave you stranded, trying to touch the person you've elevated to such a status, that even to you, they have become untouchable.

In time, you will have to quench your thirst for this person you feel so much for, because they will leave you dehydrated of love.  Love is not love, unless it is reciprocal.  Without reciprocity, love is just an obsession that becomes overwhelmingly hurtful to the person who is starving for it.  You can lose yourself and everything you believe in for the sake of another and what good are you to anyone, once you're lost in place?  Love that is not fostered, is a bleeding love, that can you leave you a shell  of a person.  If, love is to exist and persist in a relationship, it has to be reciprocal, otherwise, whose fooling who?  I leave you a short quote about love,  that is born out of loving someone more than I once loved myself...


 "To Quench the illusions of a love once had, cottonmouth becomes the drink of choice."  Excerpt from The Book of Curthom.

In Loving Memory

"Just like a fire needs fuel to burn, so too does a memory need a past to exist.  The burning within my heart will only diminish when my memory of her is occupied by the loving presence of another. 

Just like you have to inhabit a reality often found in the dreams that wake you from your sleep.  A dream where the vision is as narrowly understood as the stupor of sudden awakeness.

Within this blur of confusion, clarity is as instant as the epiphany that haunts the memory of a dream."
                                                     
                                                                                            Excerpt from The Book of Curthom


This is one of many entries from The Book of Curthom, which tells the story of waiting for love for over three decades and then once finding it, the consequences of loving with all of your heart and soul.  The Book of Curthom contains love quotes, love letters to the one true love, and speaks of a shy love that was forbidden by society, yet went on to consumate a collection of timeless short love poems that have endeared the loving memory of a time that may never return.