What Love Is

love

is an unjust emotion
we all must fear,

for a list of the reasons
i've just written here

number one...

it's almost never ready 

and it's rarely ever done

numbers two, and three...

it effects your work when you're away 

it wrecks your worth until you're poor

number four...

it seems suspicious 

as it's always in your business

number five...

it's drives on the opposite side of

oh my god we're all going to die 

and in the absolute wrong direction

number six...

it kicks, and it bucks, 

and it snorts like a horse,

and it knocks you on your 

a*s, and out of your sorts

but

number six...

it doesn't punish, 

number five...

it doesn't relinquish,
number four...

it gives without hesitation 

number three...

it cares without explination
number two...

it lives inside our hearts,
alongside our loneliest 
lonelinesses, our public

reluctances, our highest 

expectations, and our lowest

repugnaces,and yet, love,

one...

it finds it's way through

love 
thunders past ugliness
love 
champions paths to truth
love 

is another chance to find out 

exactly what you're made of

love, my friend, love too,  

will wind it's way to you

Author's Note

rewrite from an earlier version. I feel it's much better rhythmically but my math could be off. please feel free to tell me what's wrong.

Reviews

[Hairythoughts]

Can relate, love got me once or twice. Like the style.

[Farmgirl]

Oh I dont think any thing is wrong .. this poem of Love speaks for itself .. And you captured its every muse about it ..

Wonderfully described!!!


#YayYou!

[Gee]

Man, and when true love lands life is a wonderful thing indeed.24 years married and happy as a pig in shite JCC.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and it is something we can't really control---it has the power over us and determines our feelings and reactions, and we just have to accept the negatives with the positives and try to dwell more on the latter.

good piece...
j.