Music Monday

It is not easy to be vulnerable and open yourself up to the possibility of unrequited love. But it is better to experience heartbreak then to live a life without love. Andrea Gibson, a famous spoken word artist, recently wrote an incredible piece about loving without fear:

I'm never gonna wait
that extra twenty minutes
to text you back,
and I'm never gonna play
hard to get
when I know your life
has been hard enough already.
When we all know everyone's life
has been hard enough already
it's hard to watch
the game we make of love,
like everyone's playing checkers
with their scars,
saying checkmate
whenever they get out without a broken heart.
Just to be clear
I don't want to get out
without a broken heart.
I intend to leave this life
so shattered
there's gonna have to be
a thousand separate heavens
for all of my flying parts.

Reading Andrea Gibson's piece has inspired my pick for this week's Music Monday. Both these women express their love fearlessly. I can only hope that one day, I will be that brave.

All I Wanna Do In Life by Marianne Faithfull