this morning, you are talking about love <br />and how you think it is a feeling that sometimes hurt and make you not <br />easily forget <br />how time heals and leaves a scar just the same <br />how you were stoned one time by an uncaring lover <br />on your head <br />and since then no hair grows in there <br /> <br />you start with feelings of tenderness shaped like a very white ball <br />pure and hanging on some ceiling with a very sensitive string <br />always ready to fall <br />and fell <br />always willing to die <br />and died <br />how each thread of suffering, that feeling of finally being junked <br />have become a cloth, a veil in your face, and how you finally covered <br />yourself with its blanket and how you walked away <br />to get over with <br />such an overwhelming sorrow <br /> <br />others tell you that you have been wrong because love too is <br />a choice <br />a selection of this and that, a filling of the blanks like a test of life <br />a quiz <br />where you get scored and rated and judged and declared either to be a winner <br />or a loser <br /> <br />lest you forget, one poet who said, that love is not a noun, but a verb <br />not even just a silly adjective <br />or some sort of an adjective to another adjective a decor on your thought <br />or just an idea to be conceived of <br />from an accident of love at first sight, the giggle and the crush <br />for after all <br />love (again, i must tell you) is a responsibility <br />the capacity to look at the apple of eden and not eat it <br />the patience, not just the pleasing or the appetite <br />the way to obey a commandment: to always want the other to be happy <br />and put yourself last <br />in the line of those hungry and thirsty and those who want to find meaning <br />in the other <br />the beloved, above all yourself, the lips that want to kiss and refrained <br />because love is always the drive to be strong <br />and right and <br />survive<br /><br />RIC S. BASTASA<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-love-is-again/
