"What Is Love"

“What Is Love”

“does anybody love anyone anyway?”

really, does anyone know?

i once thought

love could grow on trees,

the passion a love fruit

filled with gentle kindness

and a moon lit breeze

that would knock you to your knees.

so i loved you,

ate burning fire,

walk’d on hot coals,

but you just ran away.

so here i am today

playing this lonely lyre.

Aztec Warrior / redzone 7.3.16

(Note: quotes are from the song

“What Is Love” , by Howard Jones)

Author's Note

....thanks for reading... another 80's song..

Reviews

[Lydia Shutter]

The longing in this one is palpable, Curt. Love does not grow on trees, but it does need to be nurtured and watered. Even walking through hot coals does not prove to some people how much you NEED to be with them. A bittersweet write with a great 80's song to accompany it. Very "nice". Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

are you writing about your love life, or mine...those trees i thought love grew on....all got uprooted...

now that phrase "make like a tree and leave" is not so funny...too many autumns...

j.

[redzone]

my love life Jacob, but in reading many of your poems, not enough trees and too much concrete... I think we are running a parallel course Jacob... we need some loving, the kind that grows on trees....

[Papaya]

Great question. I used to believe in getting married and living happily ever after and growing old together with someone. Maybe we just love for awhile and move on. I don't know. But still kind of believe in happily ever after. Maybe I watch too many movies though. Good poem.

[redzone]

my parents are 91 and have been married for 70 years (this past June)...They somehow found the ways to get over the rough spots... so it is possible to love someone, to be with them for a long time, but it has to be based on mutual love and respect, equality and in staying together based on sharing different enjoyments and experiences and also having common goals and dreams... I believe this is possible to achieve but not always easily accomplished... too many men and sometimes women want to dominate to see love as a possession of "property rather than two individuals sharing a life together... anyway, I know you sometimes think I am too defensive around this.. ending... thank you for your comment and views Ana, they are more than welcomed by me...

[Papaya]

That's wonderful, I love hearing stories like that. Of love that has endured.