The Hard Love

This didn't turn out how I expected. But that's the point, right? I'm not linking up this week because I do want to address this topic in more thought and more depth later.

Five Minute Friday
Prompt: The Hard Love

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It's a hard dance, this life. Sometimes whirling, sometimes stepping, sometimes buckling, sometimes falling. It's a hard dance.

Dancing and loving. So different, yet so the same.

Neither comes naturally.
One follows, one leads.

Pain and work and dedication and frustration.
Beauty.
All meshed into one.
Blended and melded.

Taking up your cross. Denying yourself. Opening up those dark places.
Those dark, painful, vulnerable, wounded places.

Following blindly. Trusting. Pursuing. Giving in.
Believing, creating.
Bleeding.
Loving.

This hard love. This hard dance.

STOP