It didn't add up - he was so angry about having to put his feelings into words. It wasn't like a 500 word essay assignment, just put your feelings into words. So I pulled him aside and asked him directly. He was all over the place "It's too hard". "What if my feelings are not what you think". "I hate writing stuff that could come back to haunt me". Finally he settled down and slowly but methodically peeled away his reluctance and channeled another voyager maybe from another time. All this emphasis on love is self motivating because avoiding the priority it merits makes all other topics seem miniscule. There's no truth to the counter that "all talk means still searching" because half a decade of hollow declarations could have blocked the real when it appeared and that would have been catastrophic. But the power was self sustaining and is more so today. The repetition her is value added because prophetic declarations are the most self fulfilling. It effectively puts an end to been sos, as in been so blue, been so longing, been so futile. Shimmy shimmy koko pop.