How I See Love

Love, it’s everywhere isn’t it?

Behind every person, there’s a story of love

That unconditional attachment between a mother and her newborn

The feelings two dumb teenagers have their Junior years

The friendly sibling rivalry, who can jump highest, run to the top of the hill first?

That old couple down the street, celebrating their 40th anniversary

 

Love is everywhere and nowhere all at once

Because people can make it brittle

When a mother has to give up her child because of abuse

When at boyfriend passes something between friends, that’s really meant for no one

When the growing separation grows so wide between two sisters it almost can’t be bridged anymore

That old couple that will fight after their expensive dinners over money and how fat they’re getting

 

Yes, and “love” can be fake

“Love” can be wrong, immoral, disgusting

“Love” can make people do bad things

“Love” will make them crazy, filled with a pedestalled ideal of grandeur

“Love” is what leads to crushes on the wrong people, overstepping bounaries, even stalking, scaring those they claim to “love”

 

Yes, true love can be hard, but love can survive, it can lead to better choices

It exists to help, wherever it can

That mother, who sees what she’s done and reconnects years later, giving no excuses and accepting their blame

That one boy who punches the boyfriend, and helps the girl move on

Those two sisters, who begin talk again after a tragedy

Or those two young brothers, embracing each other, building the other up so they can stay strong

 

Love is amazing, but love hurts

Love can die, love can be reborn

But most importantly, love is truly everywhere

Like heat, where even its absence is measurable

Love is a concept, a perception, and that makes it infinite

 

Love, true love, is powerful

That tempered feeling of trust that comes after a crush

Once upon a time, that mother was the happiest woman in the world

Once upon a time, those broken up teens couldn’t stop looking into each other’s eyes

Once upon a time, those two sisters shared everything

Once upon a time, that old couple knew everything about each other

 

True love, a gift everlasting, mends all wounds

It can solve any problem

It will show that stranger they shouldn’t chase after that girl

It will grow a new relationship between mother and son

It will show that young girl someone new, someone better

It will grow a stronger connection that ever existed between those two sisters

It will show those brothers how to help their parents

 

Love is such a strong force, something so powerful for people to have

It’s something that has no limit, but also never doesn’t exist

There can never be too little

Because a little love can go a long, long way

   

This poem is about: 
Me
My family
My community
My country

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