Love not a prison

To be free to love the way we are

The way we need to be.

To be free to run up mountains or walk down dusty city streets

To be free to tend each others broken hearts

And not fear all this anger and tears.

To be……..

Not strangers staring across a life time of loneliness

Nor players trapped into roles that are not ours

Rather this…….

Fragile souls reaching out into the darkness

Knowing that courage is not the absence of fear,

Seeing that love always comes at a price

Finding a road across the savage mountains that part us

And a way to act with great love and true dignity.

Standing now…..

Realising how unique we are

How ravaged our souls

And yet how blessed that in the darkness we met

And in our own way have reached out

Not knowing how this might end

But believing that within each is an oasis of beauty to be found.