We carry a little piece of each other

I hold a hope in me
that the reason
we all feel so heavy
is that we carry
a little piece of
each other
inside us.
~Christopher Poindexter
 
We so often equate feeling ‘heavy’ with the suffocating weight of a burden that we must bear.  It’s as if we spend our lives trying to extricate ourselves from commitments, entanglements, and responsibilities.  But lately, I’ve come to believe that it is this very ‘weight’ that tethers me to you – and even when you’re not with me, I feel the reassuring weight of your presence, the trace of your arm around my shoulder, the gentle weight of an eiderdown duvet holding me firm in the cool darkness.

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