For My Survival

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Love Blossoms

I cannot love you

if I rely on you

for my survival.



It is only when

I acknowledge that

I don’t need you

that I realize

I can’t live without you.



But I must resolve

to believe that

this may not last forever,

and if it didn’t

I would endure.



I do not need another person

to feel complete;

I am enough.


Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by: "The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost." ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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