When you choose to love someone
You will have to reach
To stretch yourself past your comforts
Your practiced expectations
Your walls and barriers…
While they may be another part of you
They are not you
And must be respected as such
Embrace the knowns and the unknowns
For nothing else defines a life well lived
If you must control anything
Control your fears
By letting them go
Love is here to challenge, to break open,
To heal and make genuine
Trust it