Poem: Do Not Love Half-Lovers - By Khalil Gibran

This poem by Khalil Gibran ignites my soul! Read by SARAH WHITE, it is a reminder to reach toward the fullness of life. All of the fullness we dream and desire. A prompt to encourage us all to take up more space in ways that feel healthy and whole.

Love you.

Transcript

Do Not Love Half-Lovers by Khalil Gibran Do not love half-lovers.

Do not entertain half-friends.

Do not indulge in the works of the half-talented.

Do not live half a life and do not die half a death.

If you choose silence,

Then be silent.

When you speak,

Do so until you are finished.

Do not silence yourself to say something,

And do not speak to be silent.

If you accept,

Then express it bluntly.

Do not mask it.

If you refuse,

Then be clear about it.

For an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance.

Do not accept half a solution.

Do not believe half-truths.

Do not dream half a dream.

Do not fantasize about half-hopes.

Half a drink will not quench your thirst.

Half a meal will not satiate your hunger.

Half the way will get you nowhere.

Half an ideal will bear you no results.

Your other half is not the one you love.

It is you in another time,

Yet in the same space.

It is you when you are not.

Half a life is a life you didn't live.

A word you have not said.

A smile you postponed.

A love you have not had.

A friendship you did not know.

To reach and not arrive.

Work and not work.

Attend only to be absent.

What makes you a stranger to them closest to you,

And they strangers to you?

The half is a mere moment of inability.

But you are able,

For you are not half a being.

You are a whole being that exists to live a life,

Not half a life.

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