“This is how it is with love”

“

This is how it is with love. 

Once invited,

it steps in gently, 

circles twice, 

and takes up as much space

as you will give it. 

“

[Joyce Sidman]

The love I got again for a couple months last spring & summer was of a type that I hadn’t had for a long time, almost decades. I’m not sure that I invited it, but it definitely knocked at my door last spring, stepped in gently, and took up as much space as I would give it. 

And I gave it an ocean of space. As much space as my heart and soul could contain, could offer. 

And now that ocean of empty space is filling up with grief like dark waters from a flood filling an underground cave.