“Don’t sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.
One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII (I don’t love you as if you were a rose)
Pablo Neruda
I don’t love you as if you were a rose of salt, topaz,
or arrow of carnations that propagate fire:
I love you as one loves certain obscure things,
secretly, between the shadow and the soul.
I love you as the plant that doesn’t bloom but carries
the light of those flowers, hidden, within itself,
and thanks to your love the tight aroma that arose
from the earth lives dimly in my body.
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you directly without problems or pride:
I love you like this because I don’t know any other way
to love,
except in this form in which I am not nor are you,
so close that your hand upon my chest is mine,
so close that your eyes close with my dreams.
“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns,
or the sharp stones on life’s path (Khalil Gibran).”
Those who choose to live, march on. They don’t look back or cry over life not being fair. They march on. They know there will be challenges, undaunted, they march on.
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
““Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each day we have a choice as to how we choose to live the day. We can live it in the gloom and despair, wallowing in self-pity. Or, we can “live in the sunshine, swim the sea and drink the wild air.”
