If I could..

When you’re separated from a loved one it can be difficult to go through your days without feeling like a part of you is missing. It’s easy to feel down, lost and or anxious. You’re in this constant state of anticipation that you don’t know how to overcome. It has been 2.5 years since my partner and I have been doing a long distance relationship. That is a tremendous amount of time, one that has taken its toll in many ways. But it has also given us many opportunities to heal on our own paths.

I’ve come to accept that love is not about being with each other all the time, love doesn’t even have to be about going through life together. Love is seeing another soul and knowing that they’re the one you are meant to carry in your heart.

Whatever life has planned for us we have to practice acceptance, even when faced with grief or loss. If you resist it then you will suffer, but if you learn to sit with the pain and accept it, then it will wash over you and. you will come out of it.

The poet in me feels deeply and so for me it’s hard not to fall into rabbit holes of pain and sorrow. Poetry is the tool that gets me out. This one is dedicated to anyone that is going through a loss or a change. Anyone who misses someone they love but can’t hold near.

If I could..

If I could I would tell you more,

Hold you close and love your core,

If I found a way to let it go,

I would find the path that will take me home,

If I trusted what is meant to be,

I would free myself from misery,

If I learnt how to tell the truth,

Then I wouldn’t be so mad at you,

If I knew where it all began,

Then I would go back and hold your hand,

If I could be there with you right now,

Then I would run as fast as I can,

If time could stand still and life would pause,

Then all this waiting wouldn’t hurt so much,

If you were there for a moment and not a second more,

Then I would hold you close and never let you go.

Love Always,

M