THE YEARNING OF

Submission by Heavenly Reid

I have never been in love. I don’t know what it feels like to be in love. What is love? I have felt the love of family, of friends, of moments from life that I appreciate–but the love from a stranger, a significant other…a lover? I don’t know what that feels like. Movies, books, real-life, songs…they all show, talk, display and sing what it’s like to really love– to be loved. I am a young adult and I have never felt the intense need for someone or what it feels like to be intensely needed by that someone. All I have are the contents from other people’s intimate experiences to satisfy my own curiosity. 

I often think about– even dream about being touched, being kissed, being held and being loved. The burn, the passion, the desire– all of the built-up tension that results in being someone’s forever. How it feels when our lips meet, how it feels when both our bodies share the same heat and the same need for one another. When the adrenaline gets overwhelming, not only butterflies, but a zoo starts to take up your mind, body and soul. 

I yearn for the physical, for the emotional, and for the mental states of love. I not only yearn for the intimate passion for both bodies together, but for the pain and hurt from love, too. I want the arguments, the fights, the pain, the torture, the stubbornness–I want to feel everything

Photographer and Creative Writer, Heavenly Reid, has always captured and written everything from the heart and soul. Her photography and storytelling is heavily surrounded by feelings, experiences and the in-between. Her new “The Yearning Of” release, speaks to those who have never been in love — the intense wants and needs of something that has not yet been fulfilled.