My love for you

It's honey, gliding down your crown 
          to your cheeks,
Taking time to trickle and trace 
          the contours of your soul.

A flame in summer; a blaze in winter—
          tending the heat
that enfolds your heart.

But what if I told you, my love 
          is otherwise?

Fierce and immense like the sun, 
          best enjoyed near dawn and dusk. 
So, I remain afar.

And what if I told you, I love 
          to the ends?

As the ocean bed drawing you 
          into sable silence;
As the snow moon baring its will 
          over crystalline fields.

What if I showed you, 
This love that I am
          once upon a lifetime?

This piece emerged from a recent writing workshop I led, in which I invited participants to freewrite to the prompt, “My love for you is….” This prompt was inspired by an excerpt, titled “Truth: The Dreams of Bears”, from “The Unwinding: and other dreamings” by Jackie Morris

Through writing and seeing the manifold ways we express love, we also come to feel and return to the love that we are.

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Hello & welcome — I am glad you are here. I am Rosslyn Chay, an inquirer, poet, and coach. The Dandelion Notes are field notes on my process and learnings through my human journey as I go on a quest to mend our fractured relationship with our nature.