~ True Love ~

 

 

 Tr.u.e. L.o.v.e.

 ‘Bridges’ yet crossed - or even burned

 

That afternoon in autumn,

 

 the Sun began releasing ‘Her Tears of Hope’,

 

 Standing there embracing,

 

looking up, as a light mist caressed our faces…

 

True Love, Indeed… the strongest, matched by no other

Lost in attraction, steady ones breath, are you listening?

Interpersonal love, shaped of elements of fallacy -

Spawns the birth, now borne of Love or Infatuation?

 

Jane Doe: “When we talk, you're always attentive to everything”

John Doe: “I Love how you cook, clean and treat me like a King”

 

Love begins of innocence, nothing short of harmless

Craving sense of mystery, passing boundaries, no expectations

Desire to please; you do not want to possess…

Engulfed in Flames of shadowed passions, your heart at rest!

 

Jane Doe: “You used to dive in, exploring my shores”

John Doe: “You appreciated, respected my Love. Now…you Expect so-much-more.”

 

Choices made, perceptions viewed, push to shove…

Could you spend your life, 24 hours a day with the one you Love?

Can Love last forever…? What do we 'choose' to sacrifice…? Exactly…  

Explore the nature, understanding the function of Love.

 

Jane Doe: “Ashamed I am, concealing pain with silent cries �" you never cared”

John Doe: “You thrive on mind games of torment and despair”

 

Pain vibrates, shattered dreams, crossing lines of gray

Tomorrow, soon will deliver an 'envelope of dismay'

Rhythm of dance, life once treasured, now lost forever…

To each left scars, unseen, chiseled within their soul...

 

Jane Doe: “I guess you never really loved me at all!”

John Doe: “Go ahead and take another picture off the wall!”

 

 

 

On first glance, Love (First Love, for the second time, third or so-on)

We believe this is {True Love}…

 

Is this possible?

Do we have an idea of their favorite color, number, T.V. show and/or what makes them (tick)?

No~… We seem to judge the visible aspects such as appearance, smell, things outwardly that pulls us in.

 

Can Love really be defined?  Does True Love ever fail us?

 Are 'We' willing to work through differences together? (Not by looking in front of 'Us')

 We seem to exclude ourselves �" that’s right… This is a one-way-street, right…?

Love...in all facets -

A development of ‘who we are'...Want to ‘be’...What we can ‘do/be’ for others…

SILENT PROMISE 'ONCE MADE', LEFT DROWNING IN A SOUR GLASS OF WINE... 

Does True Love 'Ever Die'...?

  

 ~Legacy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[Tania Leigh]

A unique format made this fun to read.....the stanzas in red, to me, are like a narrator speaking his piece, and then his voice fades away in time for the vignettes of dialogue.

I can easily see this acted out on a stage with spot lighting alternating between Jane & John Doe and the narrator, who is off to the side.

A wonderfully insightful write about the cycles of love and human relationships.

[Sarah Morgan]

Beautiful. I was thinking earlier while watching the movie "One week" I think it was. Anyway, it got me to thinking about how love is one of the greatest feelings in the world - the excitement of it all. Somewhere down the line you find yourself sitting in an empty room wondering if the person you married still loves you just as much as he once did because it doesn't seem like it. This poem just brings so much to the table to think about & I like how you put that people sometimes look to the outside instead of the inside. I've always felt that love has to be deep - and I feel that people who find their mates disgusting because they've gained weight or are going through a bad time in their lives - well, they must of never really loved the person to begin with. I think that is why the divorce rate is up so much because people fall into lust first instead of love... they think they will love the growing old part, but what your doing is learning more and more about the person as you get older.. I love my husband more and more as the years go on. In movies, In life ...what I see when someone passes is them remembering the things about that person who aggravated them & that is what they remember most about them.. something they couldn't stand when they were together they now love. It's crazy that love is this way. Anyway, I'm rambling. Loved the piece!

[Brad Nugent]

Nice work. Like others, I thought the format was intriguing. I loved the Sun releasing Tears of Hope - nice imagery. The last line has to be read as a rhetorical question, in my opinion. It's a complex one! I would like to think that love survives, even if a relationship ends - and that love is a quality of indefinable quantity.

[Suchita]

Nice piece of work... Specially the style f writing, unique in its own way... :)

[shadow night]

very good. i like the way the pice speak to the read. well done.

[quinfinn]

my god, what an extraordinary expose' on the annals of a romance! beautifully conceived, masterfully written and uniquely expressed... i am totalled!

[Devon J. Thomas]

What a powerful poem! Really loved the last two lines. Though I am a bit confused with all the quotations its still a beautiful poem! Great work Legacy

[lifesmith]

wow, this is such a beautiful write. Never seen such a format before. And the thoughts, we've all been there...different experiences yet all the same. We were ever truly in love? do we even understand what love is to begin with?

C'est la vie

[Airr O. Wood]

This is really awesome, I love the way it's written. I've never seen a poem quite like it, but it certainly works. It's kind of the poem that needs to be read aloud to fully appreciate the way the whole sound of the poem flows.

[Closed Account]

I'm a bit perplexed by your apostrophes (we have a long history). Why does it seem that random words/phrases are quoted (i.e. 'bridges' yet crossed, in front of 'Us')?

[tina edwards]

true love never dies