I think I need more

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I think I need more.

More of what this world still keeps hidden from me,

More of the places my eyes have not yet seen,

More of the whispers I've only caught in passing,

More of the passions that ignite when others speak highly of them.

I need more of the food I've promised myself someday to taste-flavors waiting for me as unopened letters.

I need more of the roads that stretch ahead, inviting me to ride into their distance,

I need more of the sunsets that make the sky look as if it was on the canvas of a lover, painting the horizon in hues of orange and pink — the colors of his love.

I need more encounters with people who remind me that kindness is not naive -

but luminous, as bright and enduring as those sunsets.

And, above all,

I need more of myself.

For too long I have lived as my own shadow, knowing the shape of me but not the being.

Now I wait to stand whole, to be my own light and the shadow together

Because, I always have been more.