Unlearning Love

The problem with most people

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is imagining love is the easy road

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We were taught how to love

in all the wrong ways

To look for love

in all the wrong places

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We were taught swiping right

defines if someone is worth your time

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We were taught to undervalue reality

& glorify shiny, beautiful, plastic things

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We were told that relationships absent in arguments are the most healthy

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In reality

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Only the ego allows swiping away at contenders

The soul doesn't have an app for love's contentment

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Reality is a treasure

Hold on to it if you ever get a taste

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Most people will only give you Splenda love

Sometimes it takes years to feel

the sickly sweet cancer they injected in your veins

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A real one will give you honey

to sweeten the sour taste of lemonade

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Unwavering agreement is codependency

Arguments are a channel for growth

if you let them be

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Perfection is an illusion

Pride will tarnish the purest

soul connection

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Love is acceptance

of the good, the bad, and the mediocrity

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Love encourages us to grow in ways

we may have rejected previously

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Love isn't easy

nor is it hard

It just takes courage

to accept people as they are

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Their beauty

their ugliness

their glow

their scars