Love Means

Love Means

 

Love means hurt and pain

Giving until you can't anymore

Crying until the tears dry up

Forgiveness and slamming doors

Putting up with what you never would before

Harsh words and damaged feelings

Doing things you never were willing

Then when its over

You cant wait to feel it again

 

tender touch and caress

willingness

truth and honesty

faultlessly

open hearts

needing

being together

bleeding

 

Love means

everything.

 

PB 9-28-08

Author's Note

written for the ~What love means to you~ contest

Reviews

[Jeff Loquist]

This truly captures what love can be. Flawlessly taking the reader from one end of the spectrum to the other.

[Walkingblind]

This is so true love is a struggle and it hurts causes pain and rubs you
hard until you get heart calluses. But you never want to lose that
feeling of being loved back, of being cherished and adored until
you reflect like gold inthe other person's eyes. Very nice and very
true...Great Poem!

[C. M. Miller]

What is Love? It is infinity, and we mere mortals fruitlessly try to reach out to find its end. However, you delicately captured a descriptive piece of the infinite nature of love; your comments are out there now, in love's infinity, part of the "everything" of our existence.

Well done!

[Mysty Rayn]

This is so well done. You captured so much of what I was looking for. Thank you for entering the contest. Good luck!

[Adrian K. Smith]

Love lasts as long as love lasts. It lasts no longer than that. As it fades, yes - it means all the pain. It means so much pain. It means entirely too much pain. Yet, we chase love regardless - for all that it means, and as you said - yes, love means everything. Good. Bad. Everything. We chase the good. We need the wisdom to leave the bad.