Limits of Earthly Love

The Limits of Earthly Love

by Martha MacFarland

I do my best to transcend

The limits of Earthly love

Yet in my heart

Pain still resonates

I understand in my mind

That not all are able to receive

To allow or accept

The love I offer

The sting of what I want to label

As rejection takes hold of my heart

I try to fight the ego’s desires

To shut down

To build a fortress

To be bitter

My primitive self says, “Not again!”

By my Higher Self

Says, “It is only the limits of Earthly love”

“You can still love through the pain”

“How do I do this?” my shadow self asks.

“By accepting the illusion of life

You come to realize that

Love is not made perfect

In this physical realm

But you have opened your mind

To awaken to the knowledge

That life is an illusion

An illusion, you dispel for the truth

Of wisdom and love.”

“How do I transcend this pain then

That I still feel in my heart?”

“Breathe...breathe…

Still your mind and

Let the Collective Conscious

Come in and clear the energy

Of the ego

Nourish you

Cherish you

Love you

Accept you

So that you realize you don’t need

Every person’s love

To be whole

You are already whole

And this knowledge will wash over you

And you will realize

The limits of Earthly love”

“Do I still love a person who

Rejects me?”

“Loving people in spirit

Is different than loving them physically

You can heal and release your own pain and

Still love them with your essence

Still bless them from afar

Because you understand now

The truth of wisdom and love

That transcend this physical realm

For knowledge is made perfect

When you accept this contrast,

And you still love through the pain”