We Call it, true love.
It lifts you up.
It blooms  bright crimson on innocent faces,
lightens the complexion of many to a satisfying glow.
It sears into your brain a feeling of safety, comfort, and
covers yours eyes from the glaring reality with secure rose colored
lens.
   True love. It eats away your fears, caution, and reserve.
Tears down the adult and returns you to a state of childlike wonder,
trust and utter devotion. Once you return to that state it's almost impossible to climb back down from that incredibly heightened state.
To regress back to an adult. True love doesn't make you forget reality.
It provides a pleasant distraction from it.
  We'll remember all too well what realities we've face before it, and what we'll return to it after. Like children we wish to hold on to the hope of lasting love, lasting…true..love.
    It sounds bettering saying it slowly. Savoring the words 'true' and 'love' together. The word 'Lasting' being the icing on the cake. Yet, it becomes darker.
   Not everyone is worthy of love, and not everyone needs love or at least thinks they do. We call it, being realistic. Realistic thinking is a true love killer. In our hearts we should harbor a secret wish, one never said allowed but understood. "We want true love," that should be in the breast of every man and woman in the world.
    I wish it were. We are feeling creatures, and that's because we're human. Humanity is all about feelings, experiencing, hurting, burning and yearning. Companionship, friendship, lovers, lusts, affairs, divorce, it's all describing the complexities of one simple word, we call it, Love.

In search of enlightenment
I stumble.

EMDR handled my childhood traumas,
Small pebbles can grow into landslides if not checked.

Buddha's mindfulness allowed for some insight,
But being aware of my behaviour does not always lead to course correction,
My personal OnStar can merely suggest direction,
As I am only a passenger on this ride.

I am left strained.
I can see the road
And the beautiful sun set.
I can feel you beside me,
But I do not trust,
I fear
If I look too closely
I will find you gone.

And so I continue
My search for enlightenment,
My lasting hope is
When this journey ends
I will find you there.

You make me think of flowers
Not the kind you see in the shops
Or your backyard
But the ones no one sees
The ones in those far away fields of my mind
That yes,
Even though are not seen
Are still beautiful, so beautiful
That it makes me think of stars
You that is
And how they're worth so much
Again
Like you,
About the constellations that they produce
That reflect in those eyes of yours
That bring up another thought of mine
Of how we view the world
And our surroundings
And how when you choose to see beauty
I choose to see ugly
That's how our mind sets are different my dear
While you are chasing rays of sunlight
In the crystal clear waters of our ocean
I'm hiding in the dark depths
With the unknown things that lie beneath
Like the unknown of my mind
And you've touched that place
You've brought light
To the place where flowers grow
In the now bright depths of the ocean
That reflect the constellations above
That show just how far
Our love reaches
Into the space
Of our hearts

My soul shines
My all smiles, when
I see you, and you smile.

My dreams smile
in all dreams, when
you smile,smile.

Love and Peace
reign in harmony
when I see you
smile.Just a smile.

Dark lifts
souls uplift amongst
the brightness
of the shine-
When you shine a smile..