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Loving You. {poetry}

 

Love does not walk on eggshells.

It shatters through humiliating stumbling blocks and falls.

It breaks into song sans regard for perfect pitches and tunes.

It laughs uninhibitedly and with reckless abandon — not at, but with, another.

 

It holds the other person’s hands not because it is cold,

but since it feels so right.

It lingers to look at sunrises and ducks and quiet lakes,

and sees depth and meaning where others may not.

 

Love is talking until dusk turns into darkness, and back again.

Love writes with the soul guided by the heart

and is read by the ‘one’ who finally understands.

It finds no reason to love, but love itself.

 

Love is not ending whatever loneliness there wasn’t,

but celebrating with another being’s journey and coming to one’s own.

Love takes nothing away from the beloved,

But is the soothing comfort of marveling at the world with two sets of eyes, souls and hearts that beat as one.

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Ruby Bernardo

Ruby Bernardo

Yoga Instructor at Steve Nash
Ruby Bernardo is forever a study in contradiction. An incorrigible optimist, terrified of everything, but she does them anyway. She balances the ethereal and poetic with wealth management consulting and real estate. A workaholic and a decompression junkie, Ruby is a voracious reader but has a ton of books waiting to be read. She stands her ground but surrenders to anything that moves her. She has this deep well of soul-gnawing anguish to write but blames pragmatism for not letting it all out. According to Ruby, “We live but once, no repeats or reruns, so savor and fill each and every waking moment with splendid memories. Happiness is all but a choice, going back in time isn’t.” She lives both in Davao City (Philippines) and Vancouver (Canada). She is a part-time professor of Marketing Management at the Ateneo School of Business and Governance (MBA), entrepreneur (Real Estate investment and development), Licensed Realtor, Marketing and Business Consultant, and a ramp and print ad model on and off since 1989. Ruby got her MBA from the Asian Institute of Management, and is a Yoga practitioner who is currently working to get a Yoga Alliance certification.
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