How to Be a Romantic
The Source of Love
I discovered the Source. The Source of Love. Pure Love. Unconditional Love. Timeless Love. Of course, I’m not the one who discovered It. It revealed Itself to me. I was dreamt. And then one day, I was dreamt to be aware, of what was aware of me. Always here. Always there. Closer than close can be. In this world of separation, there is me, and there is thee. But before thee, and even before me, there is the empty Sea, that fills my heart and the universe I see. So so empty, there’s nothing incomplete. Nothing to be, to be empty.
Sonnet 43
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright, are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow’s form from happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
- William Shakespeare
I had to decide…
… was my love for her conditional? or unconditional?





