When somebody you love turns and walks away… they don’t take your love with them.
Your love is exactly that… love that’s made and expressed by you… for you… within you.
What that person did was give your love a mirror to look into… a love to emulate… a love full of permission to model yours against.
What that person did was help you grow your love… realize a more full version of your love… express the unhindered, unrestricted, unapologetic form of your love.
And because they helped you unleash this elevated version of your love… you love them for that… and they became the target and focus of its powers.
But they do not become the possessors of it.
…They simply take the mirror and model with them when they turn and walk away.
It’s up to you now to become that version of yourself independently… to express a love at that level that simply overflows—not targeting any one person in particular—but rather one that radiates towards everyone you cross paths with…
One that allows you to become the loving person your best version knows you can be.
P.s. This is a response piece to the poem I wrote yesterday.