What you deeply love …

If you really want to know someone
the beautiful essence of them,
then you must get to know what they love;
that is what truly animates them
and wants to be alive
And if you know nothing else about them
you will still know what’s most important to know
about anyone,
- what they deeply love

It’s a rich conversation to have
that is interested in love,
curious about the spark in another,
the spark of life
that lies in wait
for the questions that would coax it out coyly,
delighting in being seen at last
and taking its place among the more familiar aches

Maybe start with knowing yourself this way
asking your true love to reveal itself to you
from the inside
so you no longer waste the time you have left
on things that don’t really matter
and lead you away
from what’s most important to know
about yourself,
- what you deeply love.

It’s a rich conversation to have
that is interested in love,
Curious about the spark in yourself
- the spark of life;
curious about what is not loved enough
and the regrets;
Love finds itself in strange places,
in hearts not fully opened yet
and dark corners untouched by light
till everything is included
and nothing is left out

Then you know what’s most important to know
about yourself and everything else too
Nothing exists but Love
- Love in all its expressions
not always perfect
not always conforming with our ideas

Nothing exists but Love
And when you know this deeply
then Love is all you can be
and loving is all you can do