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This is why True Love can’t be Explained.

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February 14, 2018
Leah Sallen
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A post shared by asimplephrase (@asimplephrase) on Feb 14, 2018 at 5:54am PST

I sat down to write about love on this day, Valentine’s Day, and all I was able to drum up were crossed out lines and blank sheets of paper.

I dug through old journals and poems for inspiration and again came up empty handed.

And then I thought, maybe, maybe this is because true love itself isn’t easy.

Maybe it isn’t a necklace or chocolates or flowers or hearts wrapped in a bow and easy mornings that flow into easy evenings. Maybe true love is finding the pieces of you that you never knew existed and facing yourself in a way you haven’t before. Maybe that’s why the words don’t exist.

Maybe it’s trusting your heart with someone else’s and there will never be enough ink to put that into a sentence. Maybe it’s thinking about this person with every action you take and seeing them in everything that you do, and maybe that can’t be narrowed down to one day a year.
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Maybe it’s a poem that can never be written because maybe it’s always rewriting itself.

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Relephant:

The Truth About “True Love.”

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Author: Leah Sallen
Image: Author’s Own
Editor: Catherine Monkman

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anonymous Feb 14, 2018 6:16pm

Absolutely love the realness of this. Thank you! <3

Jennifer Texter Feb 18, 2018 6:10am

I have never read something so simple and so true!!! This is it!!!!!

Galina Singer Feb 21, 2018 6:36am

Very powerful words, very beautifully expressed. It made me really pause and reflect. Thank you!

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