I am

I no longer cower in fear at the prospect of love

What scares me is not abundance but lack.

 

If I am afraid it is not because someone is giving too much.

I am attuned to the difference and overlap

                    between a lesson and a gift.

I have accepted the fact that my passion is too overflowing

                     for casual and callousness.

 

I feel too deeply to be shallow with another.

I share too much of myself for someone else 

                     to be keeping secrets.

 

I am no longer afraid of love, no longer worried

                      that I'll never find it. 

 

I realize now it's always been within me,

I am love and I embody everything I know it can be.

-Liz