I couldn't tell you
the lessons I learned
at twenty—
I was only just
discovering what it meant
to no longer be a child.

I couldn't tell you
the lessons I learned
at twenty-five—
my frontal lobe
had only just caught up.

But at thirty,
I can tell you this:
the most important thing
I’ve learned
is to love.

It sounds simple—
cliché, even—
but when you give
love,
love somehow
finds its way
back to you.

And that—
that is the fuel
that will fill
your soul.