Love and Fear

Love is fearless
but the ego is not

and so the ego
is afraid of
love

sometimes

of course,
love can "look good"
to the ego,
and not just trophy lovers,
but the real actual juicy delight
of sex

is good for
the body
and good
for
the soul
and good
for the ego
too,

because the poor ego,
which doesn't exist,
has this idea
that there is something basically lacking

and good sex
at least temporarily
makes the ego,
which doesn't exist
feel as if it did

and the body exists

the we
the us
the real me
right not BE the body
but it
me
you
I
are in these sweet bodies

and what about love
and fear:

good love
scares the ego
because in good love
the ego dissolves
and all that is left is adoration
of life
really

though it can appear to be of the
other

and the ego
wants to cling to time
and wants "this love right now
so hot so fine"
to last forever
which it might
but we'll never know
except one now at a time

is this making any sense?

sense to the part of you
that doesn't have to fit all
the words
together
but knows

you've been scared sometimes
when love seems
too good

as if you don't deserve it

or as
if,
without guarantees
of ever and ever
it's too much a risk to
love so much

or
as if,
the world
so deliciously out of control
will dissolve

and it
will

it will

read Rumi
read Hafiz

fall into the empty drop
delightful magic carpet of now:

it's all gone
this moment and the last ten million
and all that's left

is.....

love