Needs and wants are our problem
if I cannot ask to have my needs met
and be equally willing to accept
both possible responses then
I’m not asking, I’m pressuring.
And, if someone asks something of me
and I’m not completely free to say
yes or no then I’m in danger of compromising myself
I seem to relax my boundaries
in inverse proportion to how much pressure
I get from someone
I want nothing but what’s freely given
and the strength to resist the tendency
to want more
If my love asks something of me
and I deny her
and she accepts without a display
of regret or pain
I will no longer think her weak or shy
but rather that she has given me the highest
form of common sense love, love of who I am,
which is also called freedom.
gallagher
september 13, 78
— Copyright 1965-2008 by Dennis Gallagher —
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