December 15, 2022 7:12 AM EST
"Love shows up/and Best love sms in its train come euphorias/old recollections of joy/old chronicles of agony. /Yet assuming that we are intense,/love strikes away the chains of dread/from our spirits. /We are weaned from our shyness/In the flush of affection's light/we dare be bold/And abruptly we see/that adoration costs all we are/and will at any point be. /Yet it is just love/which liberates us." — "Contacted by a Holy messenger," Maya Angelou