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Love From My Point Of View

The irony of the idea of love

the tortilla
Mar 02, 2017
Baylor University
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Love From My Point Of View

What is love?

A word that holds no real power

Yet leaves a path of destruction in its wake

A phrase tacked on easily

Losing any creditability

An idea that can't be properly defined

Right in front of you, but you can't put your finger on what lies beneath that practiced smile

Like a women with a past

A cheap candy heart you buy to put your worth into another's life

A fictitious character that you fall so hard for, but is simply as imaginary as a formal definition


Is it real?

Is it there?

Or is it fake?


What is love?

An unkept promise with a cruel twist of fate

The bitter sweet ending of life because if it's all you need, why isn't it enough?

A paper cut on the hand of humanity, it hurts and it stings

And quiet frankly

It is annoying


Does it have purpose?

Is it useful?

Can it hold you?


What is love?

The honest "four letter word" for all of those it has deemed unworthy

The very reason hate exists to counteract

The truth to all despair, depression, guilt, pain

The hypothetical meaning of life

And to those without it gave no true meaning


How can you get it?

When?

Is there enough?


What is love?

Simple

Nothing


Why?

Because it's all an illusion

And like any magician can tell you

Illusions are tricks

But part of being humans is trying so hard to believe


What is love?

Love is not real


Why?

It can't be proven

And to some it can never be felt


Whatever it once was has been cheapened through repetition

Spread so thin it's comfort no longer provides beneficial warmth


Don't fret

It is easy to be fooled

And beautiful to trust

But like anything it must end


Love is...

Lost

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