>>42738185
After a long, long time, you start to notice. Although the emotional fire does waver, flicker, and surge in the winds of time, this is not a failure or inconstancy of love. Love isn't that flame. Love is the fact that that flame matters to you, that every sputter and hiss is felt as deeply as your own heartbeat. As much as the joy, the quiet and the cold moments each are important - darkness and lightness are made one, in love. It couldn't possibly be undone by time, no; it only moves forward, unfurling, growing. Love has a breath, its own cycles of expansion and contraction - as every growing thing must.