You ask of others,
what you are not willing to do
each time you ask another to love you...
when you do not yet love yourself.

(For if you did, you would not ask)

And yet each day I watch you wander,
walking the lines of someone else’s shores,
searching for a foothold among rocks and sand.

Though within you there are boundless oceans
with light and hues you’ve not even yet imagined,
that remain completely unexplored.

You’ve not begun to swim their depths,
as you are too busy trolling the shallows
of someone else’s refracted image,
of the self that they don’t know.

Worry not about painting the sky
with someone else’s color
and find now your own palette -
the one that is yours uniquely
not yet discovered, for it will
only be found when you
find it within your self.

Journey within and you will see that
the kingdoms that you are seeking are
also seeking you.

You are the ultimate mystery of this lifetime,
the grandest adventure of them all,
the undiscovered continent hiding in plain sight.

Love has not abandoned you,
it is within you waiting to be discovered,
please stop asking others why they won’t love you,
and start asking that of yourself.

I can't see you, but I see you.

I don't know you but I know you.

When you let me,
I will love you
just as deeply as you love yourself
and we will swim your oceans together.

Love does not make you vulnerable,
it makes you invincible.