ECHOES OF OUR HEARTS

Sometimes we close our eyes and just
listen to the echoes of our hearts. We
all fall in love and there are times
when we love so much that we lose
ourselves in our emotions. More often
than not, we wonder why there are love
that grows, and love that grows cold.
We would start to search for answers
and try to find where love has gone
wrong. But in the end, we find
ourselves where we started for we
cannot question love when it has its
own reasons. Love will always be as it
always has been....silent, mysterious
and deeply profound.
Many of us believe that love is
forever, that love never dies, only to
be disillusioned in the end when we
find our hands empty and our hearts
longing. We mistakenly have looked at
love as a need to be fulfilled. But
love is a gift given to us. We should
not hold it in our hands for we may
never find the strength to let it go
when it decides to leave. We should
only embrace its warmth and glow while
it last and then freely open our arms
when its time to say good-bye.
When we fall in love, we don't want
that feeling to end for it is
everything we are, everything we wanted
to be. We pray that love will stay and
grow in our hearts. But if it doesn't
then we should never let our lives be
taken by it, for life should not end
where heartaches begin.
There is always a reason why we have to
move on. When we have to say good-bye
to the feeling we wanted to stay
forever, let us not wave our hands with
a heavy heart. For love will have to
set its wings free and find the place
where it belongs. We may have lost it
but then again, when we close our eyes
and listen to the echoes of our hearts,
we will hear that feeling resounding
silently forever.
Then we'll know that love never left
us, for the good that we have become
because of love will always stay. Love
will always be there, reminding us that
we should be thankful and happy not
because we have lost love, but because,
for once in our lives, that feeling
called love lived in our hearts and
made us happy.