~ 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.

[Sarajane]

i absolutly love the format of this. absolutly beautiful, very very skilled. like thoses who said below me, the narrarator and dialogue gives great images and is a wonderful balance. i like the jane doe, john doe, for its true, any could/can go through that exact thing. wonderful!

[Mickey Ellison]

Stop the query
For all the answers gain
Flurys of unanswered questions.

For love, true or not is ones choice
A choice despite the "rate of return"
One that lives beyond the other's love that faulters
And chooses to love instead

The love that's born of character
Rises above passion
Pushes spirit to spirit
Not just flesh to flesh
And becomes that which matters
Above all the rest
In this world.

The rest is all foreplay.

[Nah Waul]

honestly i found it to be too long and got distracted halfway.
nice work though

[babyblue]

it sounds ,like she relly liked you been your becoming an a*s towrds her

[TRISHA]

Format quite unique.....not sure...but it worked in this instance. Several lines moved me...thrilled me...and caused chills. 2 thumbs. Legacy....you are there. I feel what you are saying and it excites me as well as saddens me...because I have been there, am there, will return there perhaps. Trisha

[Michael]

I think you did just fine with it. Maybe more should read it because there isn't a whole lot of it (true love) really out there these days.

[Samantha]

Excellent read! I had to read it out loud to the walls it was so deep. I only wish I had a guy here to read the male part aloud with me. I think the last 4 lines before the ending of the poem can be removed where it begins with "are we willing... and ending with "for others". It really took me out of the poem and left me confused. I read the poem back through again and it works so well without those four lines. Use them for another poem but consider removing them from this one.

Thanks for sharing,

Sam~

[Erin Adams]

This would be wonderful as a monolouge.

[Danne B.]

Very interesting! I surly can tell you that I've been through that situation quite a few times, which, brings the poem to life for me. Very good read!

[Tiffany Blair]

does true love ever die? good thing to ponder... love the format of this....