Love Isn't Perfection
Love isn’t simple
It isn’t easy
It isn’t peace
It won’t just find us
And everything after that will be great
No
Love is dangerous
Love is poison
Love is screaming matches and sex
It is chaos and peace
It is the complexity of the human experience
It is
Growth
And trust
And vulnerability
It is hard
It is work
It is suffering
It is everything
Everything good and bad
Love is illuminating
And blinding
It is a paradox
It is a slave
And a master
It is punishment and reward
It’s easy to be romantic
It’s easy to be delusional
But being practically romantic
That is the trick
The movie star shared his parents story with me
“Divorced twice and married three times! Divorced twice and married three times! My parents! Can you believe it??”
He declared it with such pride.
Then he explained why.
Love is messy
Love is dangerous
Love is poison
But in Love
Lies the potential
For
Infinite beauty
Nothing is perfect
We aren’t
And our love certainly isn’t
Nothing is perfect.
Love should be messy
It should be dangerous
It should be poison
Because
Nothing in this world
Is perfect
And we have to struggle for it
To make it worth it.
So please remember,
No relationship is perfect
Nothing is
And the beauty
In each other
Lives in our flaws, too
And how we help each other grow together.
"Married three times and divorced twice!"
Yeah, Mathew, I heard you the first time.
-C.H.