Love Is A Merry-Go-Round

Love Is A Merry-Go-Round

Of course, love is scary my dear!
It lifts you up and throws you down.
It spins you around like a merry-go-round,
but much worse.

You can't, even for God's sake stop,

you have nothing to hold on to.
But have you ever really been on a merry-go-round, my dear?
Stood at its edge, held on to the bars so tight
that your palms burned red alight?

But then, have you ever really been on a merry-go-round?
Stood right in the centre, its eye!

Held nothing at all, arms wide open slicing the wind

and not even for once shaking,
nor falling, nor your head dizzy, but just spinning?

So yes, my dear,

love is super scary from the far away edges,

but then again you can't call it love,

when it simply is acquaintance,

far from a distance.

You got to go to the centre of your heart.
And find it there waiting for you all along.
Waiting for you to show itself.
Waiting for you to show yourself.

To show you how to love its depths of insanity,

and its light hearted wisdom.
Its blinding brightness and comforting darkness.
Its sweet differences and sour similarities.
But above all, its wholeness.

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