What's Hard About Love

Realizing you're in love is hard.

Whether it's finding your heart has been ripped out of you,

Without regard to your thoughts and feelings on the matter,

And now sits, whole and beating, in another's hands.

Or waking up to find that what you've slowly given away

Wasn't just time and energy, but a special piece of your soul,

And the hollow space left in you is suddenly home to someone dear.

Staying in love is even harder.

Doesn't matter if it's deciding day in and day out

To stand by doing nothing as you watch

Your blood pour through the cupped fingers around your heart.

Or choosing as you wake up each and every morning 

To remain incomplete and hollow on your own

So your lover can have somewhere warm to come back to.

But losing love is the worst by far.

Watching as what keeps you alive slips and crashes to the floor

No longer supported, cared for, or held close.

Feeling as your missing piece is stuck back in

But doesn't fit quite right anymore because the space isn't the same.

Knowing that you'll scar and heal and fall back in love again.

Reviews

[Selman Repišti]

Your poem depicts the universal truths about love and this is its main value. I think that the title ''A Love Poem'' is a very common one, i.e. used in lots of poems before. So, I suggest you that you might give it a title such as ''A vicious circle of love'' or ''Immortal love''.
Best,
Selman