What is love?

Mood: Lost Date: 3/28/2006

Love.

What is love?

Do you know?

Does anybody?

With only four letters. 

You read a story.

Maybe the longest you ever will read.

Means so much.

Yet looks so little.

Do not miss use,

for some people can get hurt. 

At times, hearts get broken.

Not purposely, just of not knowing.

Wait it'll come.

You may think you feel it,

but it may only be the beginning.

At times it may creep up,

then denial crosses your mind. 

Do i feel it, is it love?

I don't believe in love.

Don't let your guards down, 

feel it or not we're human.

We are made to get hurt,

being the one saying it or receiving it. 

Love.

What is love?

Do you know?

Because i don't. 

Reviews

[Eddie Phillips]

It is an elusive question. I like your approach to this poetic question. Many poets have written about it but we all have a different opinion and approach. I liked your approach to this and it kept me interested until the end. I have written similar poems but I love how you piece this together.

[Lyricalfairydust]

Thank you for your review on my writing. This is a question that may take a lifetime to fully understand and will forever be on our mind.

[Itsdandammit]

Butterflies? Joy overflowing, growing exponentially as you move closer to that person? Deep, deep gratitude and satisfaction if it is requited. Unending torment if it is not?? Aching need? Desperate longing?? It is all of these and none.

[Lyricalfairydust]

Very well put. A question or maybe a difference, of what is, what isn't , and the unexplainable.

[Trouble]

I love the last part the most, "Love. What is love? Do you know? Because I don't."

Nicely done, well written, a splendid word chose.
Love is a scary thing, something that at my age, I've yet to experience besides my sisters, but I've seen it so well in others that it scares me to see others fall in love. I'm scared for them.

[Lyricalfairydust]

Honestly it scared me to love and once i had the love that one can only imagine in dreams i was terrified of it, so much so that i confronted it as i did all my other fears and took the bull by the horns and embraced what was to come. I have never felt a love like that and i probably never will again. But how lucky am i to have been blessed with that love and to allow myself to feel all the emotions that came with it. It still scares me a bit, for me and others experiencing it. But as they say in the rooms , sometimes its the things in life that make you uncomfortable that one has or is supposed to do. Not all things , but the ones that are good. Leap of Faith.

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Great write. Love is a sweep of motion it can break you or take you. Were made of different matter inside so that's what love is to me.

[Lyricalfairydust]

Thank you. I agree love is a sweep of motion. The hardest love is when you have your love but it still breaks and takes you all at the same time.

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Welcome yes I seen it myself.

[sette]

i like the last line of the poem, it speaks out differently.

[Lyricalfairydust]

Thank you sette. I hope you enjoyed it.