“It’s because of her that I was able to live,” I say. Emily is sitting in the front row her eyes red with tears. She’s wearing a black dress, and when I look at her I almost see Mom. Mom had always loved Emily. Maybe as much as I do.

“She always showed me right versus wrong. Well before dad died. . . When Dad died,” I take in a quick breath looking down at the podium. I close my eyes, holding bac...

Love can be blinding,

Misguiding,

Leading you away from the

Tenderness of raw

affection,

into the arms of heated zealous.

Yet it can still be passionate,

And enrapturing.

Cradling your heart,

never apart from your

Love ...

What ever happened to our love?

To feel so close to someone

Who now resembles a passing stranger

Your friends send messages

under the guise of affection

I see them only as declarations

Of an ever fading hope

That we will never return to what once was

The passion we shared

The tender moments shaped together

Are hidden by the anger

The upset

Of all that has happened

That same tenderness is a fle...

From a heart left in the ashes

the gentle glow of kindness

and a certain tenderness

gives rise

to the rekindling of the embers

Fed by the quiet affection of another

As it gives rise to a fiery inferno of passion and love.

Returning in colour it intensifies!

Born anew in the world

Of a heart on the mend ...

I don’t know when I knew that love wasn’t enough

When the warmth of your closeness that

Let me hear your heartbeat mimic the drums

That roar in my ears when I think

About you

Stopped being the motivation I needed

To want you

I don’t know when my affection for you

Turned into a chore, a duty I am guilted into

When you tell me you miss me

I’m sorry

The words automatic, consoling

When I don’t want t...

Love is not always right.

Not in the sense that certain kinds of love; heterosexual, homosexual, etc. are wrong—No, nothing like that.

Love is not always right in the sense that sometimes it’s not real love at all. Sometimes it is toxic and dark, and your feelings will cling to it no matter what reason presents because you want that love.

It will take you by surprise when the affection mixes...