You choose to Love...

Like falling from a cliff , feeling the adrenaline...
feeling the rush, knowing that there is nothing you can possibly do to keep yourself from falling. You succumb to the inevitable.
Then suddenly you reach the bottom and you are submerged into this cradle of water.
The deprivation tank.
All your senses are stolen from you,
for they are still thriving in the memory of the fall.
You lie there, unable to come up for air,

left to struggle with the inability to breath.

You hold onto your soul and your life flashes before you.

The memories come in flashes at first...
so many important moments of your life revisited.
Slowly your heart rate begins to slow and you find yourself reliving your memories in a glorified array of happiness...
they are more intense now....
your body stops struggling now.

The water forms to every inch of your body like a glove...
it gives you comfort like no other.
Comfort in your memories...
they Are real!

Then you come to a place in your time line where you remember where you were right before you took the fall...you see those eyes.
The ones that have spent a lifetime looking for you...

your heart stops...

You remember how complete you had become, what you had struggled for so long to find, how close you had become to reaching it...
and suddenly you choose this love over the comfort of your memories.
For the first time you realize that this love is better than death.

You choose to breath.

You choose life.

So many years of hurt and neglect...
forgotten.

So many hours a heartache and tears...
pointless.

Next thing you know...
you open your eyes to "those eyes"
staring at you with tears welling inside them.

"I almost lost you"

He pulled your lifeless body from the water.
He brought you back..
knowing how close you were to losing it all...

For a moment you see your own soul in his eyes...

The water can no longer bring tranquility...
You have chose to live outside its comfort...

You choose to Love.......................