Love Yourself (Love Choices)
Love has many forms.
Love for friends, for pets
For things;
For family and lovers.
Can we choose who to love?
No more than we can choose what to love.
I love custard
And chocolate ice-cream
And rock ‘n’ roll.
I don’t love opera
And musicals
Though I see their value.
Never could I swap those things around
No matter what.
I love my family
Though often they infuriate me
And occasionally make me hate them.
Can we choose who to love?
No.
Meet a stranger
Fall in love
Like lightning
Or
Learn them slowly
And love what you find.
So
Are we choice-less?
No.
We can choose freely
To ignore love
And walk away.
They may be bad for us
Or simply bad;
They may have one thing we can’t accept
Though our emotions say
We love them.
Can we choose?
Of course.
We can always choose.
To be happy
Or sad
To do good
Or bad
To stay
Or walk away.
Love is the same
We are not bound
Other than by
Our choices.
We may say we are
But that comes from fear –
Of being alone; of being lonely;
Of being unloved.
Or ‘what if’
What if they are ‘the one’.
But they aren’t ‘the one’.
If they were you would have no doubt
So choose to wait
And
Love yourself.