Love is the seeker

Charlotte Brydon

12th March 2025

Inspiration Author and Supervisor Alastair McNeilage

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We are not chasing love

It is not the distant light,

nor the waiting arch

It is the wind that stirs the trees

The hush between each breath

A whisper curling at the door

Waiting, waiting, just waiting

We are not the ones who call

Not the desperate hands,

not the weary feet

It is love that aches for us

Pressing soft against the edges

Where we are closed

Where we are brittle

Where we have forgotten how to let it in.

It knocks, and we mistake it

For longing, for hunger, for mercy, for loss, for salvation

But it is the seeker, not the sought

And all our searching

All our reaching

Is only the echo of its call

To love is not to hold

But to dare to stand open

To be found.