Love Poem: Until Then
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Written by: Rita Lopez

Until Then

You are scared
You are scared, of the cage you think love puts you in 
So much so, that you have not realized the cage you put yourself in for being scared to be loved 
And through eyes 
That does not make you free
Or wild 
Or this out of the box thinker 
It just makes you scared 
It makes you fear life 
You have been so hurt by whom ever
That you fear giving yourself completely to someone 
Because if you do that 
If you surrender 
Then you know that you have no more control over you 
For someone so free spirited 
You fear love 
I am not saying it is a good thing or a bad thing 
But nonetheless, it is your thing
And in fearing love 
You are going to run into yourself every single time 
I can tell you want connection
I can tell you crave intimacy 
But you will not allow you to be open to love 
Love is not a cage 
It is the most freeing feeling, that has ever come into existence 
It is not to put anyone in a cage, but only to allow them to love you 
So you have the will to want to live
To crave to live
You no longer crave to live 
You only live by rules and routine 
True love 
Is unconditional and it is free
And those who knows its power, knows not to ever take advantage of it 
It will never put you in this cage 
Or want you to stop living life 
And those who want to cage you
Are those who want to do nothing but trap you 
Want to control you 
And nothing more 
That is not love if someone wants to do that to you 
The best way I can describe love verus no love 
Is that love knows one day it will have to let you go 
But in doing so love will continue to love 
It is not going to stop because you are no longer around 
And with no love, it knows if it lets you go that it will not continue to love 
It does not know how to survive without you 
Because it has attached itself like a leech 
But if its real love, if it is true 
It wants to open the door to the cage that you and others have placed you in 
It wants to open that door an allow you to flow freely 
Into the unknown
And into the universes beauty 
And I only hope one day, that you are conscious enough to realize, that love has entered your life 
And I hope one day you will be open enough to receive it when it does
Until then