Brave Love

Four-square behind

If someone stands four-square behind someone else, they give that person their full support.

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Love is like a hole.

You fall into the first one—

And you realize how hard it is to see anything else.

But that’s not Love.

Not yet.

It’s just one hole.

It’s easy to get out.

But then when you don’t get out before it’s too late,

And all you see is that amazing, beautiful view,

You will fall into another hole—

Even after you have fallen into the first.

Oh no, you think, it’s harder to get out now.

 

Then you fall again.

And again.

And again.

And again.

 

And that’s when you realize you’ve made an error.

A huge error.

 

A human error.

 

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[Chip]

I was asleep.

I was dreaming.

I was climbing.

Climbing out of a deep, dark hole.

I fell—and broke my ankle.

I climbed.

I fell—and broke my leg.

I climbed.

I didn’t fall anymore.

I just climbed and climbed and climbed,

And there was this numb ache in my chest.

 

I reached the top—out.

Out of the hole.

 

I saw what it was out there.

It was huge—the world.

I saw the world—out of the hole.

 

I was alone.

So alone.

 

And then I was scared.

 

So, so scared.