In the midst of fatigue, of caring for and worrying about others, of anxiety about relationships, and of the myriad stresses of the world, caregivers may often feel Love has abandoned them. This is not the nature of Love, for Love is always present. All she needs is an open heart.
Love's Return
For Love will always return
circling through every gray
to pink again the world.
She will reappear, inspite of everything,
to enclose & carry us across the sea
or into a further forest meadow
where every flowering wave
and sheaf of grass splendor-curves
in imitation of you.
The light of the world
imagines he illuminates your face
not knowing that
you are the source of Love's hope:
That you will let the always-present glow
flow through you once again.
Erie Chapman
-from Woman As Beauty
