Here We Are In The Years

2025-05-31

"My love, of a thousand reaffirmations, we know we will never find ourselves in adequacies. Beyond the blemishes you absorbed, the ones I ignored, it was enough for us to have found the places where we fitted." Who are we if not a pack of confusions and misdirections? Because we are so inadequate in our understanding of what we are, and what is truly important in our lives, we ever so often miss the very opportunity passing by us with a shy smile.

"My love, of a thousand reaffirmations,

we know we will never find ourselves in adequacies.

Beyond the blemishes you absorbed,

the ones I ignored,

it was enough for us to have found

the places where we fitted."

Who are we if not a pack of confusions and misdirections? Because we are so inadequate in our understanding of what we are, and what is truly important in our lives, we ever so often miss the very opportunity passing by us with a shy smile.

Until, through a strange alchemy of circumstances, we don't.

And we find something, we find someone. And everything changes.

There are a million reasons why something shouldn't work, a relationship should collapse, why an idea should die an immediate death, but something holds us up, gives us the courage of our convictions, a boldness which says "whatever be the consequence".

And things happen, in their own messy ways, such that through the chaos emerges a new kind of light. Soft at times, harsh mostly, often accompanied with music, often blinding - but light it is. And through the clutter we see ourselves and our lives with clarity, and we finally recognize what is important to us.

And beyond the love we have for another, things, seasons, art, beyond all the lives we find - our love for ourselves.

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