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...and then she said to me with words unspoken: "when the shadow you cast covers more sand than that of your lifeless body, it is time to find shelter... or death".

[from unusually lucid dream I had last night]

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above: "unsheltered innocence"

Sadness takes many forms. It hides in places we prefer to believe it cannot go. Often there is sadness in hope. Sometimes it resides in confidence. Occasionally sadness can be found in comfort, and those who sport the keenest eyes, can even find sadness in joy. Others will surely find it in desire. But all that being what it is, the real tragedy is that there is always sadness in love.

The burden of love is compromise. Its necessary, a line of defense against the erosion of shiny new optimism, and hope. But like all things real, the wear of compromise will expose the sadness within. It is thus critical to embrace, and not lose, the sadness once born into view to avoid unearthing the only thing scarier than sadness... rage.

SO where then, you ask, does fear fit in? Fear does not hide. Fear is what comes when all these other things have escaped you... or have been let go.

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