Love Needs Nothing / by renee mckenna

How do I show up

and say

I don’t need you

for my happiness?

I arrive freely

just to be

with you

to discover you

and myself

thru you.

How do I stop

the habitual search

to fulfillment

thru another?

Not you?

Maybe him?

Her?

Must be

someone else.

Gotta go.

This isn’t “it”

Always hopeful

always seeking

to fill the void

of being human

rather

that to share

the emptiness together

and be full.

If you do not

fill the space

the way i hoped

i will replace you

exactly the way

i fear

being replaced.

you are not

good enough

exactly the way

I fear

i am not

good enough.

so i will find

another

and another

and another

to see

if just maybe

they might

be

“the one”

How do i come

needing nothing

and share with you

this time?

How do I do that?

I want to know

Because

That is love.