Love Yourself (Love Choices)

Love has many forms.

Love for friends, for pets

For things;

For family and lovers.

Can we choose who to love?

No more than we can choose what to love.

I love custard

And chocolate ice-cream

And rock ‘n’ roll.

I don’t love opera

And musicals

Though I see their value.

Never could I swap those things around

No matter what.

I love my family

Though often they infuriate me

And occasionally make me hate them.

Can we choose who to love?

No.

Meet a stranger

Fall in love

Like lightning

Or

Learn them slowly

And love what you find.

So

Are we choice-less?

No.

We can choose freely

To ignore love

And walk away.

They may be bad for us

Or simply bad;

They may have one thing we can’t accept

Though our emotions say

We love them.

Can we choose?

Of course.

We can always choose.

To be happy

Or sad

To do good

Or bad

To stay

Or walk away.

Love is the same

We are not bound

Other than by

Our choices.

We may say we are

But that comes from fear –

Of being alone; of being lonely;

Of being unloved.

Or ‘what if’

What if they are ‘the one’.

But they aren’t ‘the one’.

If they were you would have no doubt

So choose to wait

And

Love yourself.