Recycled Love

When you love someone and it ends, where does the love go? What happens to the love? Surely it doesn't just disappear. Poof. Gone. If you truly loved someone with your body, heart, mind and soul, when it ends, does the love just fade away?

I don't want to fade away. In your heart I long to stay

Yeah, Eric Clapton music at 7:00 in the morning (What next my Jackson Browne Late for the Sky cd?), I have been up since 5:30 and it just seems to be one of those days.

Thinking. Thinking. Thinking.

Here's the thing. I have two different friends ending relationships; and sadly both are getting a divorce. To be honest, sometimes it hurts my heart so much to see my amazing friends go through the painful (yet necessary) process of divorce. And for both of them, I know there was love, there still is love in the relationship, but now that the relationship is over...where does the love it go?

I realize over time the love becomes something else entirely. I know that time (and therapy)change the love into something different. We learn something from it, it makes us stronger, we grow, blah, blah, blah. But in the present, what happens to the love?

It's almost like the love is in a state of limbo, unsure of the next move. Delicately hanging in the balance of unspoken words. And for some, the love can manifest itself into renewal, anger, peace, sadness or silence.

And sometimes? I guess the love does just fade away.