Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Chelan Harkin: There Is a Kind of Love

Photo by Molly

There Is a Kind of Love

There is a kind of love
Rare and precious
That creates a revolution
In your deep being.
You can no longer bear
The prisons you’ve put yourself in.
You can no longer bear
Your old commitments
To the titration
Of the great love
In your heart.
In some rare and beautiful cases
This living love, like a wild rose,
Is discovered
That makes you unable
To manage yourself so.
A beauty is discovered
Whose fragrance impels you
To dismantle old worlds.
And there is no greater gift
Than a love like this
And nothing more
Confrontational
Than something that asks you
To consecutively lay down
Every precious thing
You’ve invested in
That would wound you
Or another.
This is the love of sacrifice
Of making sacred
The space of the heart
By throwing more
And more strategies
Of separation
Into love’s fire.

Chelan Harkin


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