Quote from 'Song of Solomon'

[WRITE]

I was reading this Toni Morrison novel yesterday, this speech is somewhat out of character ( the guy is a bigot and racist murderer ) but it's spoken to a woman who eventually dies of her broken heart for someone who won't love her, and resonates with me:

"You can't own a human being. You can't lose what you don't own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was nothing without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don't, do you? And neither does he. You're turning your whole life over to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can't value you more than you value yourself."

[reallyME]

whereas stalking could be considered selfish

I'd have to say codependency is self-punishing

Good post Write.  Thanks for sharing

[WRITE]

It's hard to love someone and truly trust they will not leave or hurt you; yet any other kind of love feels flawed.
Is flawed.

Toni Morrison is fascinating to read, I can see why she won the Nobel prize.

[Certain Hope]

That would be a truly self-less love, Write.

These couple verses from chapter 8 of the Song of Songs by Solomon say it all to me...

6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Hope

[WRITE]

A few weeks ago my friend and I went to see a rare performance of Arthur Honneger's King David, on the way out he remarked 'you should write King Solomon'.
After you wrote that CH, I got out the Song of Solomon ( beautiful ) and picked some words and made a start.

Thank you!

[Certain Hope]

Dear Write,

      

  It is one of my favorite books in the Bible. Never ceases to amaze me what a true "Romantic" God is.

  But oh what a life Solomon had... such highs and lows... and so many wives. Writing his story will be quite an adventure!
  Blessings on that!

Love,
Hope