Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.

I end not far from my going forth
By picking the faded blue
Of the last remaining aster flower
To carry again to you.

Yes, and even for the past...that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was. Something I can accept. Mistakes made by the self I had to be or was not able to be.