When I Learned to Receive, Love

When I Learned to Receive, Love

It was a long time, coming.

When I learned, how to receive your love.

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When I learned, how to feel.

How to feel your caring, for me.

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Caring that is a reflection, of my own ability to care.

Attention that is a reflection, of my own desire to notice.

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When I let you shower me with kindness,

that is how;

how I received your love.

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Because, I had cared about me.

Because, I had cared about feeling, love.

Because, I had cared enough, to practice.

And, I learned to receive my love for me.

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Oh, I know, how to love,

how to shower the receiver.

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Fully expressing the depth of my heart’s passion,

means that I’m receiving, too.

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Like a transmitter, looking for a radio.

Like a wave, searching for the shore.

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I get to be the beneficiary,

of your caring; of your attention.

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I get to soak that in.

Like relaxing into a wet hot bath;

and letting go;

and sinking in, and going, ‘ah’.

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I get to give you the pleasure

of an outlet for your love.

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I get to give you the satisfaction

of knowing your passion is felt,

by someone other than you.

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I get to shine in the energy

that is between us, dancing.

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That is how, I learned to receive;

how I learned to receive, your love.

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~ Susan V Lacerra

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