Realigning

What love is (not):

a dance of the heart that shows how to be happy,
warm welcome, the kind we need now to be happy.

knowing about hurt and choosing to hurt instead,
a wound that we nurse but still vow to be happy

a smile we wear, unashamed of revealing teeth,
ego bruised, but we choose anyhow to be happy

on thorns we’ve travelled too far to want to return,
we are told to be strong somehow to be happy.

deep down, crashing thoughts and a box of spell,
we choose only what we allow to be happy

leonell echa