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fearful love

June 2, 2020 by Russell Wardlow Leave a Comment

fear and love
those two things can’t coexist together the way that we force them too
love is liberating
fear is captivity
often I’ve noticed in relationships
if one of the two cave to fear more than love
they’ll ask their lover if they can make changes to accept them at lower areas where they are more comfortable at
instead of rise out of their fears and love them at the level where both can succeed
too many concessions compensations and compromises made for the sake of being nothing more than comfortable
and any push becomes an assault on the other’s level of love for not accepting them as is
instead of a declaration of “I love you so much that I want better for of and from you”
we don’t teach each other how to love and want more
we create a cultural norm where to want more is an option and dangerous
rather than an inherited and natural journey of any life
so no one learns how to love at levels other than the ones they are most comfortable at
symbolic of the lack of growth and evolution we have day to day when it comes to accepting another for who they are
let alone our cultural standard for making people go through lifetimes of hell to finally be comfortable at just one of their truths
so I wonder
how many people fall in love and then settle as if there’s nothing more to be gained
therefore, nothing can be lost
versus those that fall in love, and then fly together
if we’re taught to fear a God of Love
then what kind of love do you think we will settle for and divvy out to each other?

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Prose of a Con is a collection of Russell Wardlow’s prose and poetry written entirely behind bars. Through writings on family, spirituality, freedom, love, justice, redemption, and vulnerability, Russell seeks to show the humanity and hope of individuals like himself who are incarcerated.

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