to love at all is to be vulnerable.
love anything
and your heart will
certainly be wrung
and possibly broken.
if you want to be sure to keep it intact,
you must give your heart to no one.
lock it up,
safe in the coffin of your selfishness.
but in that casket,
safe, dark, motionless, airless
it will change.
it will not be broken,
but it will become
unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.
the only place outside of heaven
where you can be
safe from all the dangers of love
is hell.
-- C. S. Lewis
[Listening to: Creed - ThirdDay - Offerings II]
