Hello readers!

I think I might be getting a little personal today, but hopefully you won’t mind that terribly much. While I’m working on some new stuff that I’ll be posting soon, I came across this poem by Sara Teasdale and was immediately struck by how it seems to speak every romantic relationship I’ve ever had. It’s a little tragic, and there have been a couple of men that I have loved in my life, loved them because they truly were “a spirit beautiful and bright.” However,  for some reason or other, I haven’t met the person able to eradicate all the doubts in my heart and mind. There has always been something lacking that kept me from fulling being able to trust them with my heart. From what I’ve been told by many happily married women, when you meet the right person, it’s really doesn’t take very long to know whether or not that person is for you.

Anyway, I was just thunderstruck by how accurate this poem is my love life thus far. It doesn’t change the status quo (and by no means do I have any right to complain). We females just love to feel understood, and it was quite heartening to find a piece of beautiful writing that captures this sentiment of mine so accurately, that I remain women who longs to be “lost as light is lost in light” (such a great line!).

In the meantime, God is taking care of me, and I know He has my best interest at heart.

Well, as always, happy reading ❤

I Am Not Yours

by Sara Teasdale

I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.

You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who longs to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.

Oh plunge me deep in love — put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.