A Celebration of Love
- Lattise Teague
- Feb 14, 2022
- 3 min read
A Celebration of Love
A lot of people hate Valentine’s Day and dismiss it as just another hallmark holiday. That’s probably true, but any day that celebrates love is alright with me. You don’t have to be “in love” to love or desire it. It’s a natural emotion we’re all born with.
Today, I wanted to celebrate love by featuring amazing writer and poet, Darlyce Jones. Her poems are sure to get you in your feels and wanting to call that ex you swore off at the top of the year. (Don’t do it!)
Light a candle, pour some wine and let your mind focus on love. (If only for a minute)
Love’s Recipe
You were so fragile with my heart...
long-suffering in my foolishness...
Disposing my insecurities while molding me for my destiny. You are my everything. I was oblivious to your intervention at the peak of my spirit diminishing then I encountered a lapse in time….
Until you allowed time to show its face reflecting the content of your original design. I am mentally confined and exhilarated embracing your mindfulness of me…
and I’m grateful for the process and for the NOW... You are all I have ever had...
All I’ve ever known...
And LOVE is what led me back to you.
Out Pour…
“There was never a time that you didn’t look at me and my heart smiled…
or that you touched me and the essence of my being soared freely.
When I captured you in my mind I leaped internally and fought to restore my breath that seeped away.
Even when we parted your residue lingered in the atmosphere, across the air waves, circled camaraderie, a particular cuisine…
then time stood still and I am reminded of our sunset intercepted by scattered showers.
I tried to run for cover hoping the storm will pass away only to embrace a hurricane, tearing at the root of my soul.
I sought out for restoration, entangled by confusion which then introduced me to silence. Walking through the puddles from the aftermath of the storm I saw a reflection of a time long ago when your charisma intervened on my journey and I questioned your existence?
I allowed vulnerability to be my guide, grasping onto a fantasy that could never become a reality.
I am not a reflection of he, I am clearly a “wanna” be.
I extended to you a revelation of intimacy, exhaled the divine nature of my femininity,
I gave you access to my inner chastity but lust wouldn’t allow you to see that love is the essence of she.
The Lock Has Changed You’ve held in your hand the key that unlocks my inner most mystery. You were able to encounter the divine connection of emotions to hard too express. But you abused it, misused it and now it has tarnished. Tantalizing my heart with your conniving words Subjected into your deception I was injected by your love. No longer will this abide Surpassing beyond your confusion, Alone you will stand. No longer will the penetration of your soul remain. The lock has been changed.
Sometimes we win in love. Sometimes we lose. There's an old saying, "It's better to have loved than to never have loved at all." I'm not sure if I agree with that theory. But I will say if you've ever experienced love, cherish those moments. Be thankful for them and cultivate an even greater experience. One thing about love, if you're open, it will come back to you. Maybe not in the original package but those butterfly feelings rarely change.
I look forward to the day my heart jumps at the mention of his name. Until then I celebrate the feeling of love and remain hopeful that it will return to me.
Thank you Darlyce for your transparency.
Follow Darlyce @msdarlyce_papayanna
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