A poem by Sofia Scarlett

Time and again we say that ‘love is not enough’
But is it possible that sometimes, love is too much?
Maybe we loved one another as much as is humanly possible,
In fact, beyond what is humanly possible.
Certainly more than most will ever be able to imagine.

But because we so deeply lacked love for ourselves, we were simply unable to hold on to the immensity of love and acceptance directed towards us.
And for that reason, destruction – entirely of our own doing – was inevitable. 
Not due to a lack of desire; in fact, I believe that there’s nothing you and I could truly want more.

Rather, due to the sheer inability to receive and accept true love and belonging. 
Our insecurities too great, our scars too deep, and our complete lack of trust for anything on the other side of the walls we have spent our entire lives building to protect ourselves, insurmountable. 

You will always be my greatest lesson. The only true love of my life, and my deepest source of both joy and sorrow. 

To know that I have lost you will cloud the rest of my days, so much so that some of them feel like running through a desert of quicksand – exhausting, impossible and endless.

To have loved you though, will always be the greatest blessing, privilege and certainly the most humbling experience of my life. Loving you has taught me more lessons than I can count, but letting you go has been by far the most difficult and without question, the achievement I’ll always be proudest of. That is proof that I am human – I know what it means to truly love another.