Love Is Simple

Love is simple- we make it hard with our trappings.
We make love difficult, painful, hurtful and regrettable,
because we keep trying to figure out- how to do love right.

In order to do and get what we think is the right kind of love,
we place demands, restrictions and conditions on our loving and those we love.
Sometimes it works.
Usually, it doesn't.
And when we get hurt,
we blame love.

Love doesn't hurt.
Falling into the traps we set for love,
makes us hurt ourselves.

Because Love just is-It is the experience of joy we have the courage
to tell the truth, be exactly who we are, and allow those we love
to do the same.

Love is not what you've been told,
what you've heard in the stories
seen in the pictures,

Love is not a tool or a weapon,
Love is the key.
It is the key that allows you to see more in yourself
and about yourself than you dare to show to the world.

Love is simple.
You simply give love or you don't .
You simply know love or you don't
You simply are love or
you continue to fall into the traps that make you hurt yourself
because you don't acknowledge yourself as the love that you are.