“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of my human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my Fool.”

― Theodore Isaac Rubin

Love Poem I

I love your big heart
your gentleness
your imagination and resourcefulness
your earth-loving awe
your perennial hope
I love you as you are

I love your anxiety
your inertia
your subtle and wily self-sabotage
your repetitive, neurotic thoughts
your helpless rage
I love you as you are

I love you when you’re laughing
when you’re moved to tears
when you can’t let go
I love you when you ache
for the sunset
for the forest
for the perfection of moonlight
sliding across the ocean all the way
to the foot of the mountains
across the strait

I love you when you’re crying
so hard you can’t breathe
when you’re screaming silently to yourself
you can’t take it anymore
and you wonder if you’ll feel good
ever again
I love you in the stillness of candlelight
when you’re curled up in the quilts
breathing softly
watching the world in the hush of the wee hours
in the incredible calm after the storm
when for a moment
your mind is still

I love you when you just can’t wait
late night surges of energy
baking cake at midnight
I love you when you crash
when you wipe flour off counters
in a daze
waiting for your ill-timed project
to bake

I love you when your heart fills up
like bright green moss after a summer rain
so warm and full
that you know
everything will be all right
and always was

I love you when  your heart breaks
when it shrinks in fear and pain
dreading that you have been forgotten
abandoned
fearing nothing will be all right
and maybe never was

I love the way you fall
I love the way you get up again
I love your soaring highs
and plummeting depths
I love your light and I love your darkness
because I am love

I am love
I am not subject to your rules
you may play small
but I never do
and I love
I love you
I love you
Just as you are

Love Poem II

Your heart loves so much
Even you cannot doubt it
With no bounds trust it

Love Poem III

Sunshine melts the snow atop the balcony table
Imperfections in the window pane shimmer in the light
The glass is melting too
Over a million years

Change flows like a river
A stone stuck in the middle thinks it’s going nowhere
As the water shaves shards of rock off
Every moment of every day
Until a smooth hole in the centre
Lets the water flow through
Until the stone has travelled
A million miles
As a million grains of sand

A hot stream of water
Steams up the bathroom mirror
Turns my skin pink
Makes me feel safe
As my skin cells shed and regenerate
As blood pumps vigourously to the tips of my fingers and toes
As water molecules change state
Float up to the ceiling
Run down the drain

One day we go back to the sea
We’re puddles and lakes
Streams and rivers
Trillions of water molecules walking around
Our home rocks us all up and down
On the waves
Never forgetting us
Never losing us
Only changing shape

I’m the foam atop the winter waves
I’m the dancing feet of the old man on his birthday
I’m the fog hugging the city and the forest alike
I’m the soggy cardboard soaked in the recent rain
I’m the sparrow stamping fresh tracks in the snow
I’m the smile catching the salty teardrop in the corner of my mouth

I am life
I am love
With no bounds
Trust me