Forevermore

Eden Michaud
2 min readJul 30, 2020

Passion burns deep within my soul.

An inextinguishable flame; the flame of pure love. To kill love is to kill me.

But luckily, no one ever will.

Love is eternal; it’s all there is.

It shifts. It changes. It evolves. But it never dies.

You can always find it.

Even when you think you’ve lost it; it is still there.

Sometimes, we think we’ve lost love but in reality, we’ve lost “sight”.

We’ve lost sight of what truly matters.

We lose the ability to see, in our external reality, what we’ve buried deep within us.

In an attempt to protect what is dearest to us, we cloak our hearts, and hide our love.

Many of us started to be ashamed or scared to love somewhere along the path of life.

We start living without passion; we settle.

Because that’s just what adults do and it doesn’t get any better than this, right?

We go to school, get a degree, land a 9 to 5 job, find someone we can stand, buy a house, get married, have kids… and die.

It doesn’t really matter if you’re not madly in love with the person you’re with, as long as they’re “good enough” by society’ standards.

True love doesn’t exist after all; it’s only in fairy tales. Or so they say…

It doesn’t matter if you don’t really like your job, as long as you get by and you “look good” by society’ standards.

Going after your dreams is foolish after all; you’ll end up on the street if you do. Or so they say…

I mean, nothing wrong with living that way if it brings you joy. But every cell in my body screams “HELL TO THE NO, FUCK THAT SHIT!”.

I. WANT. PASSION.

Work without passion, sucks.
Love without passion, sucks.
Life without passion, sucks.

They say: “Romance is dead”
I say: “Let me bring it back to life”

They say: “True love doesn’t exist”
I say: “Let me show you what’s real”

They say: “You can’t fly”
I say: “Let me touch the sky”

The fire dies when you let it.

All it takes is a spark to light up the embers of a heart.

And OH! Is it ever beautiful when it shines so bright?

That flame that burns brighter than a million sun.

I let it show me the way.

I let it illuminate my darkest nights.

I let it bring back sight to those who’ve lost it.

I’m shinning bright, there’s no going back.

Some might say I’m a hopeless romantic but that won’t stop me.

I’ll never stop fighting for love, I’ll never stop shinning.

Love is who I am and I refuse to be anything but myself.

I’ve been fooled once; I won’t be fooled twice.

Keep on loving.

Forevermore.

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Eden Michaud

Passionately living life while satiating absolute curiosity. On a quest for self and all that is. Although I’m already here and so are you.