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Category: On Vulnerability

Live Unbroken [Poem]

Maybe
our real nature
isn’t to live unbroken.

Maybe
our real nature
is to continuously break down
until all that’s left
is what's real.

Love Hiding

You never know
who would love
the person you hide.
And you'll never find out
so long as you stay
in hiding.

For hiding isn't selective.

Hiding hides you
from everybody's sight.
And if the person
you were meant to love
sees the person
you're only pretending to be—

would they recognize you?

Towards Lower Guards

People generally move through life with their guard up.

They know what it’s like to be hit and shell themselves from the possibility of getting hit again.

Acting in hate, anger, rage only reinforces this fear and makes the world a harder place.

For them; for you; for all of us.

What we need is more people who can act in love, patience, and compassion.

People who can prove to us that we don’t always need to have our guard up so high.

People who can help soften the texture of this otherwise hard, hard world.