After all is said…

Imagine, for just a moment, that you could have whatever in life that you really, really want. Imagine, if at all possible, that there are no limitations to having what you want in the deepest, most protected spaces of your heart and that it’s now yours. Here and now. Imagine that you could have and embrace, call your own, to keep close and yet still release and realize all that you have ever wanted. Do you see it? Do you feel it? Can you embrace that vision? Can you know, without a doubt that it belongs to you in all the ways that you have dreamed and imagined it to be?

For me, it has been a very simple want… a dream, if you will.

See me. Know me. Love me. Take all of me in your arms and embrace me for all I am and what I have become. Set aside, if only for a moment, that which you have called your want and need, to see me as I am. do not look away from my faults but rather, if only for that moment, open your arms and welcome me to a haven that has been dreamed of.

In my dreams, I can hear your laughter. In my dreams, I can see your smile. In my dreams, I know that you will weep along with me, caress me with a tenderness never known, with a love only imagined. In my dreams, you will see how truly frail I am. In my dreams, you know that I have spent a lifetime learning to keep my pains and tears to myself. In my dreams, you are the one that will risk everything you are, to know all that I am.

After all is said and done, I only want to love. After all is said and done, I only want to love, you.

After all is said, if there is no love, there is no life.

After all is said, if you love me…

After all is said, I will give my all.