If you want the light, like you say you do, then why do you keep it strangled in thedark? If you preach love, like you strive to, why do you run away from practising? My love, the universe you fumble for doesn’t exist, if you don’t start from within. Before you, all that I can be is eyes and heart. And all that I can do is to remain by your side, for I can’t love you any less than the more I do now. Soar
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The poem, “My Love,” by Robert Burns, is a wonderful ode to the power of love and is full of wisdom that everyone can relate to. The poem opens with a question: what would you do if you were “blind” and “lonely?” Most people would say they would search for love in all the wrong places and never find it. However, in reality, the problem is not that we don’t have enough love, but we don’t know what we are looking for when we look for love. When we choose to seek out the love of others rather than start from within, we end up with false loves and poor situations. To begin our journey towards love, we must first learn how to love ourselves; only then can we truly become vulnerable and imperfect with someone else.

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