Fuck unconditional love.
You can’t do it.

It’s an impossible goal
that makes you violent inside.

But you can
embrace
your imperfect attempts to love,
your conditional search for love,
your failure to reach the ideal,
your sorrow, your fear,
your exquisite shame,
your ecstasy and your agony,
your inherited ideas of love,
your messy, deeply conditioned human love,
in unconditional
present
awareness.

Friend, even your failure to love
unconditionally
is welcome here,
unconditionally.

And that is the true meaning
of unconditional love.

Jeff Foster