Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's claws and you their furniture. Let me see the wounds that they denied. The battle ground of family life that has been your body. Let me see the bruised red lines that signal their encampment. Let me see the routed place where they are gone. Lie beside me and let the seeing be healing. No need to hide. No need for either darkness or light. Let me see you as you are.

Intensity is the desire to receive. Open yourself to light and you will become light.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.