If you want love to work.
You must understand the effort it takes.
For the less you put in.
The less you're going to get out.

A one sided love doesn't last for long.
If felt unneeded or unworthy.
It soon will be gone.

You don't cave in when trouble is minor.
And you don't stay in it.
If love is abusive.
Your self esteem will be defeated.

But the truth lies in the statement.
The less you put in it.
The less you will get out of it.

Life isn't easy.
So why should love be?
Hadn't we learn anything since the days of Adam and Eve.
Did they depart?
Or simply stay together through their trouble storms.
Even when they realize they once hardly had anything on.

Love has it benefits.
Love has it consequences.
More than anything it has its rewards.

relax.
be calm.
you're safe.
in through the nose, out through the mouth
50 times
and, into thin air
anxiety disppears.
*safe

I want to go back home.
we live in boxes.
We stare at boxes.
We exit boxes get into moving boxes that deliver us to a different box.
Where we ship boxes.
We look through windows as if they were paintings.
I've been in a box whose windows literally were paintings.
We **** ourselves over pieces of paper.
Even the precious metals are overlooked for this paper.
My body hurts,
I'm confused.
It's like I'm lost in my own box
And I want to go back home.

He likes to say Sorry a lot
for what he did, and he likes
to agree with me frequently
but the part of him that lost
his way is still there and
that is what frightens
me the most.