Love Helps My Soul Grow

There are days I tell myself

I don't need love anymore.

I call it wisdom, being practical,

but my heart still waits at the door.

I still pause for small beautiful things,

for kind eyes and honest words.

I still melt when someone understands me

without asking, without forcing a word.

Life has broken me many times,

then slowly taught me to stand again.

Loss made every feeling deeper,

and endings made beginnings feel warm again.

So now I don't run away from love,

and I don't make it my only home.

I let it flow through me like light,

not something I must forever own.

What if something cannot stay forever?

Then I will still live it fully.

I will hold it gently in my heart,

and love without asking for assurance

The truth is, I must leave fear behind,

not love, not the kindness in me.

Because love helps my soul grow,

while fear makes me smaller.

By

Sanji-Paul Arvind

**Do not judge my life based on my poems; My Poems and my life are 2 different things.