How love should be

Love one another,
but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.

Sing and dance together and be joyous
but let each one of you be alone.
As the strings of a guitar are alone
though they quiver with the same music.

Stand together yet not too near together,
for the pillars of the temple stand apart
and the oak tree and the cypress
grow not in each others shadow.


-Kahlil Gibran-