Stick to the recipe

Relationships are kept together by ingredients in my mind. If you don't have the right ingredients then the taste of the relationship will never be what you want it to be. And if you don't start fresh you will always put the old ingredients from past relationships into your new dish. Just food for thought

Stick To The Recipe

In a large bowl crack two unclean hearts

Wash them thoroughly

If need be soak overnight

Pick out all the impurities, insecurities, low self esteem

Slice in to pieces to ensure the removal of all of the pain and suffering

Do not neglect this step

Respect the fact that they were both cut from a different grade

Their imperfections are not the same

And this change must happen if they are going to maintain their new substance

Add in two cups of trust

Because one may get lost in translation

Requiring multiple attempts of communication

Apologies, explanations, second chances and fighting stances to prove what was always there to begin with

Stir in one and a half cups of affection

A tablespoon of humor, a cup of respect and a heaping spoonful of forgiveness

Distribute evenly throughout the mixture

Knead intensively to provide strength and texture

Do not skip this process

As it builds the foundation for these ingredients

The very infrastructure needed to reinforce the rhythmic functions of every beat

Their bass when put together is to each other like a whistle to a dogs ear

The care that will be given will require you to add in 6 ounces of effort,

A handful of support, a teaspoon of patience, and a pinch of encouragement

Go ahead and splurge a bit

Add in some appreciation, integrity, romance, intimacy, time and work

Because nothing worth living for is easy

You have to dig deeply

Get your hands dirty

Put them back in the mixture and separate in to two pieces

Mold each one gently back into its previous shape

But not its previous state

It is now joined with the other heart

And is threaded with fragments of success

Slowly press this new essence back into the chest from which it came

Watch as it transforms the minds and souls

A new type of control

They now feel what the other held back

An epiphany occurs to react

And they offer the best that they ever had

Wondering why they never chose this recipe before

Because the ingredients were too expensive

Couldn’t find them

It took too much time to prepare

The excuses were never rare

But flowed effortlessly

We choose to improvise regularly

When sometimes it’s best that we

Just stick

Just stick to the recipe