How many people live a boring and sterile life in this world,
loveless, looking for love to fill them but never finding it.
Or suffering the bitterness of disappointed love.
Or the anquish of impossible, lost, or forbidden love,
and not finding fulfillment.
Or the sadness of love returned that does not satisfy.
These people could be overwhelmed with love
and their limitless capacity for love, tenderness, and self-surrender
could be filled, if they would only turn inwards
to the inexaustable love that lives and breathes within them.
Ernesto Cardenal
