To love.

Tracy Ly
The Dreaming Tree
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To love is to fear.

To feel the burning fire within your heart,

To feel your eyes betraying your word,

To feel your hands trembling,

To feel your heart skipping a beat,

To feel your heart beating 5 times faster,

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To feel the burning fire within your heart is to experience the fear of being consumed by your own flames.

The more you love, the more you fear. The more you give, the more you fear losing everything, the more you fear losing the person you love, and the more you fear losing yourself.

The more you love, the more you fear. The more you care, the more you fear suffocating the person you love, the more you fear being rejected, the more you fear the depth of your affection, the more you fear the person you might become,

the more you fear losing the mask you are wearing.

The mask you are wearing — how easy it is to lose the mask you are wearing,

Only if they say one more word will your own eyes betray every lie coming out of your mouth.

Only if they come one step closer, will your body betray your mind.

Only if they look at you a bit longer, will all the blood vessels in your heart betray all the living cells in your brain.

That’s why you stay away, that’s why you keep your distance.

But distance means nothing, when someone means so much.

Someone does not have to be in your life for you to love them.

You do not have to constantly be in someone’s life for them to love you.

“You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.” — Milan Kundera

The more you love, the more you fear.

One can’t exist without the other.

In the depth of your fear, you will find love.

In the depth of your love, you will encounter fear.

At the end of the day,

how blessed I’m for having the fire within my heart,

that never stops burning, no matter how many times it’s been extinguished.

How lucky I am, to always find the way back to love, no matter how far I might have wandered.

I hope you know that,

to fear is to be alive

to love is to be alive.

And how lucky you are, to be alive, once again?

only to find out, what if you’ve never been dead,

but too afraid of feel,

because to feel yourself, is to encounter the deepest fear.

is to face your deepest truth,

of who you are.

someone who always believes in love.

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Tracy Ly
The Dreaming Tree

World Championship Day-dreamer who turns thoughts into words, from the mind to the heart 💛