What Does It Take To Let Love In?
Have you ever wanted love so badly, but been afraid to let it in?
Here’s a poem I wrote in a very tender moment of recognizing my loneliness, my desire, and my own vulnerable path to saying Yes to Love…
Love is Home
By Felicia Williams Cosey
The moment our eyes first met
The lonely ache in me
Sensed it had found a friend,
A travel companion, a fellow journeyer
In the desert of “I am all alone”.
You saw the sign: “Do not enter:
Dangerous, untouched loneliness
behind this locked door”.
You wouldn’t be fooled or dissuaded
You dared enter anyway,
Because you knew, somehow
A greater Truth was buried
just beyond
The protective lie that held me captive,
and shut all others out.
But, alas, to enter in
You had to drop your cloak and shield
And your own loneliness was revealed to me.
Silently, wordlessly, we whispered to each other
“Never fear. You’re safe with me. I know your pain.
Together, we’ll journey to find our true home”.
Hand-in-hand, we dove heart-first
Into the pool of total uncertainty
Trusting that the yearning inside us
Would guide us to where we needed to go.
You were there for me
Unwavering, gentle and strong.
I said to you “You can do this”
You said to me “You can do this”
And so we did “this” before unimaginable thing –
We breathed. We relaxed. We opened our hearts –
And found our way home to Love.
My heart, my life will never be the same
The spell is broken.
I remember. I know. I feel.
I am happy. I am free.
I am home. And you are with me,
Here, inside the private room of my heart
The lights are on, and once again
LOVE is Home.