Relationship and communication ...

When two swans communicate lovingly, their beaks and arched necks form a heart shape
of total communication and love.
When two swans fall out, the heart shape just does not quite match up ...

It was summer, and I had been watching swans all afternoon
in the midsummer heat.
The one swan had wanted to touch the beak of his mate in affection
and the other swan waited until the last minute, and then walked clear past him ...

leaving the swan, with his affectionate heart, standing there, forlorn.
And, I mused, aren't we a little like that?
Sometimes when we are irritated or upset by something,
Instead of standing our ground and communicating about it,
we communicate by body language
leaving the other person's affectionate handshake unreciprocated
ignoring the other's proffered affection and coldly ignoring the person.

Yes, we all have issues.
Yes, we do not always behave well.
Yes, others need to know of our displeasure.
But isn't it better to talk about it,
rather than ignoring sincere love and walking past it ...?

If we walk past sincere love too often, and continue ignoring it,
One day we may have succeeded in extinguishing that soul-felt love
and it may no longer be there.

And the person who may feel most upset about the extinguishing of that love
May be the person who extinguished that spark in the first place...

Let us always celebrate love,
Not walk clear past it ...

Photograph by Catherine Nicolette. For use copyright free