For the Lonely Ones

For the lonely ones

The invisible ones

The rejected ones

For the heartbroken

The widowed

The recently separated

The divorced

For the ones hiding in the shadows of abuse

For the ones who want to love but will lose everything if they do

For the ones whose love has been betrayed

And for the ones who can only love in secret

I stand with you in solidarity as we say

This shit sucks

May you find that with any time of celebration

There is also a time of grief

Of loss

Of coming to terms with the imperfections and disappointments

Of staring life in the face and seeing only yourself

But may you also find love

Not the knight in armor fairy tale kind of love

Unless that’s your thing

            As we are all hopeless romantics

But may you find the kind of love that cries as hard as it laughs

That is willing to share the last bit of food

            But let you keep all the good wine

The kind that is unafraid of your darkness,

Your bullshit mood swings, bad taste in movies

Or your non existent thigh gap

May you find the clumsy

Often misguided, sometimes disappointing

Imperfect love that we all operate in, really

We are all imitators after all…