Understanding Love

Just part of my venture in understanding Love and being able to express it as others do.

Love, I never understood,

nor did I get.

Why Love?  I am even unsure,

if I was ever loved or not?

Love, such a simple word,

not hard to say...

But to Love? How do you love?

affection, or words?

Love, I never understood,

nor did I get.

Is it conditioned, or unconditional?

For at least I was taught, that 
to be loved, I had to earn that Love.

Yet at other times, I was told,

Love equals to God.

So, in the end, Love, was 

confusing for me, and as I grew 

and matured, it was totally foreign 

for me to Love, without that person,

earning my love.

Yet, eventually, I came to a point 

in which I asked God to show me 

the true meaning of Love, and He did.

In the end, I have learned that to Love,

does not require much, but willingness to do so,

even if you are not loved back.

And to Love our enemies, is the greatest thing,

that is not easily achieved, yet in the end, 

the enemy can become undone if all you do

is show them Love.  At other times, it may not be so.

And that just means that their hearts are truly made of stone.

I still hesitate at times, to even use, the phrase,

I love you, and only do so to my daughter, and my father, yes,

even my father, the one man that almost ruined my life,

for in the end, I grew tired of the hate and bitterness in my heart. 

And prefer to just love him as best as I can, even if he never returns that love to me.

Love, is cherished by all, and in the end, what if we all chose Love over hate, would we be able to live, more in peace?

Love makes more sense now, than before, yet pardon,

If I fail to show it at all.

Reviews

[bluessadmood]

They ask me what is love,and I wrote something about it on here..how could you live if you never loved..
Yes love is strange...it's very strong emotions..it may send you high to upper skies ,shows you the moon and places in mind you never seen..
Alas it could also bring you down on your knees..depending on how you chose love to be..or even how love has chosen you...
Lovely write

[Olabisi Rotimi Abel]

Jeez!!! I am so happy with this right up. This got my heart soften over the hatred I have towards a friend

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Very deep and extremely strong with the meaning behind your each line. Understanding love is seriously hard but not to let off love from life is certainly in our hand. You wrote an excellent prose my friend :)

[Maria]

Thanks once again, Sky.

[Writer at last! Sky ~]

Welcome my friend :)