“You have to fight for what you love.”
“You have to fight for the person you love.”
In this world, where being soft is a liability.
Anna Shvets
We have walls as tall as towers, rose vines creeping up to reach the sky.
Our thorns protect us, that is what we have learned.
Letting someone in has long been erased from our coding.
We are terrified of the pain that lingers in the shadows of love.
You tell me that humans are made to love but we have been taught to fear vulnerability.
You have to fight for what you love.You have to fight for the person you love.
It is an oxymoron, this fight for love.
Love and peace are meant to be the opposites of war and fighting.
We have forgotten our roots.
We have forgotten how to simply just love.
We have lost touch with those innocent children putting so much effort into those handwritten cards.
Pouring love onto paper, with every sprinkle of glitter we could fit onto the page.
We buried them under feelings of fear, rejection, and hurt.
You tell me that humans are made to love, and I dont believe you.
Maybe long ago, before the fear that looms around every corner of this world.
Now, we fight for it.
We have to fight ourselves for it.
We fight all the learned behavior that has rewritten whatever coding of love and trust ever existed.
I wish we were made to love.
I wish it was as simple as that.
I wish that love came as easily as water flowing down a stream.
I am tired of fighting myself for what I know I deserve.
I am tired of being too scared to allow myself to love and love deeply.
Maybe it is for this reason that we wish children would never grow.
So that they would never learn how to fear, and only know how to embrace glorious love.
