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With you I am leaning into the gentler, softer side of love
learning
to pause
to breathe
to cradle the wounds
to sit in the quiet spaces between the sobs and the sighs

Your softness teaches me that strength
isn’t always in the march forward
but sometimes in
the stillness
the embrace
the tender touch that says,
“Stay awhile, let the world wait”

Yet in your eyes, I see both the gentle rain and the raging sea
for love, too, has its stormy side
a fierce tempest that sweeps through the soul
demanding
unyielding
a fire that consumes
and leaves its mark upon heart’s tender flesh

We dance this intricate dance—you and I
a balance of fury and peace
a testament to love’s complexity
a duality that speaks of love’s vast expanse
its capacity
to destroy and to create
to burn and to soothe
to break and to mend

And in this dance
we find ourselves whole
each step a testament
to the lessons learned
to the strength found in softness
to the passion tempered with grace

For love is both the gentle hand and the roaring flame
a union of opposites
that binds us
that teaches us
that shapes us
into
something new
something resilient
something true

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In creative solidarity, Dee