Why beg and bargain,
    push and shove,
        wheedle and whine,
            compete and cajole,
                grouse and grub,
when you could–right now!–
    step through the open door of Love,
        and leave behind
            the mask,
                the falseness,
                    the ego?

Who you really are
    waits just beyond that door:

        Love.

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