The Power of Love

At least once in our lives we will be lucky enough to fall truly, madly and deeply in love. The rest of the time will have us flaffing about trying to make sense of whatever relationship we are in at the time. I've tried to reflect the confusion that love brings within this poem.


The first time that you tried love
It wasn’t the right love
Never knew love
Could burn so deep and hurt love
Now you’ve kissed love
Can you resist love
Do you miss love
And long on your lips…
Love

Isn’t it a waste
Once you taste
To not take the bait
And hesitate
Our faults dictate
That it has become too late for love
If we choose to analyse and decipher too much
Of what we are feeling
So that the feel of the feeling
Becomes less revealing
Then eventually
What we first perceived as love
Becomes nothing more than infatuation
A passing fancy
A want
A need
A kiss
So why resist
If what we seek is love
Then why deny love
Instead try love
So that we can fall in love
Give love
Receive love
Achieve love
Become love
“As one love”
For surely Mr. Marley cannot be wrong
Sing his song
“And you’ll feel alright”
In the morning light
As you wake beside love
Even if it was just a one night love
Embrace the ecstasy
Laugh at the insincerities
And most of all enjoy the journey
Of life and love

For they say that love
Comes from above
To be romantic
You could add
On the wings of turtle doves
They also say that love hurts
But that’s being dramatic
Even if love is never static
Isn’t that part of the pleasure
That it brings
Like change
It never stays the same
Takes you high then down again
Rollercoaster ride of emotions
And not even a magic potion
Can fill us with the true knowledge of love
For it is destiny
Written in the stars
That’s what I believe
From birth like a seed
As the gift of love
Is planted within our hearts
Waiting to be touched
By another who like no other
Makes that love grow

So before I go
Let me remind you so
That at some point in our lives
We are given love and take love
We taste love and waste love
We want love and need love
We look for love
And deceive love
We miss love
And diss love
Give in to love
Abstain from love
We return love
And yearn for love
We make love
And fake love
But most of all
We will forever grapple with the concept
At first sight or over time
What it is to you
Will be different in my mind
But no matter how I or you
Choose to define
We always underestimate
The power of…
Love