Love listens, it has no need to control

Love listens, it has no need to control

It does not fix

It listens with patience, with compassion, with curiosity, strength and courage, with empathy…

It knows its own limits and knows when to hold, and let be…

Love listens and knows that taking control steals from its loved ones…

Love does not run from pain, from shame, from fear and hurt

Loves holds until truly called forth

It knows its own limits, It knows its own limits

And when those limits are reached it quietly and compassionately sits and holds

It knows that fixing, that not listening steals…..

Steals a loved one’s sense of self

Steals a loved one’s sense of self…

A sense of self so needed to grow, to feel, to thrive, to grow conscious

To grow and become strong, free from the pain of Not knowing, of Not knowing…that am I safe, am I wanted…that I am loved.

Love….to breathe and calm,

Love….to breathe and calm,

To settle into one’s own knowing that I can listen, and hold…and pass a gift….a gift

To love and listen, to breathe and hold…

Joseph A. Losi
03/06/19

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