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2021 I know how to love. I'm not arrogant for saying that, I'm just confident enough in myself to prevent anybody's input from destroying what I've already built. I got stone walls and feet, unlike your boys, and I would be a poor craftsman to recklessly uproot my fortress for passionate (but more importantly, possibly temporary) whims. I've heard too much lip service and experienced too little love to believe in timeless promises.
With clarity, conviction and
With clarity, conviction and a striking metaphor, you demonstrate true empowerment and self-worth by refusing to settle for cheap imitations of love, no matter how cunningly-wrapped they are in "timeless promises". A liberating, wise and inspiring work of art. Love!
You're too kind! Thank you
You're too kind! Thank you :)
Title - Stone Walls
excellent rant, keep off parade rain--all stones thrown, love is impenatrable. A lesson to embrace! Bravo write ~S~
Good suggestion, lady :) I
Good suggestion, lady :) I have a feeling it'll come to me when I refocus and edit/add to this in the future, it's kinda too scattered right now
Often, promises have a
Often, promises have a half-life that even the creators don't, themselves, know. One reason that people, historically, were asked to swear upon a holy book was presumably that the book was a steadfast cultural idea, it was something that was unchangeable, thereby tying our oath to permanence. Lovers swear upon other books. They swear upon the holy books of intertangled existance as they know it in the moment. Not all promises are broken due to dishonesty. Sometimes, the 'holy books of a lover' change, as a person grows through experience. The way life "seemed to be", turns out not to be how it is. We take it personal. Sometimes it is, but often times it is just that our partner - or our own self, as the shoes sometimes are on other feet - meant every word they said, but couldn't fulfill them once their worldview and their understanding metamorphasized. Once old 'holy books' are lost, so can the promises of lovers attached to them become old, abandoned artifacts, left carelessly perhaps, but not by intent.
I think where I am going with this long winded comment is that you shouldn't lose hope in "timeless promises", but rather to weigh them against what they are attached to. Perhaps that's exactly what you intend with the piece, but the promise of an experienced, emotionally educated, and well-hearted partner carries a much more valuable weight than that of someone who still sees the world through simple tropes of love. Their hearts may be equally good, but the rate at which their promises will be kept may be remarkably different. All the best, learned lover who, it sounds like, is within the camp of the experienced.
A heartfelt thank you for
A heartfelt thank you for your gracious input first off :)
Your spirited words remind me of the way I felt about love and relationships in the past, and that stuff is precious. Some days I can kinda unlock that trove but I admit living on my own for a long time tends to skew that mindset.