Reason The sense of understanding hovers at the end Of a twirling tunnel Motionless in the brightest of light While my vision tumbles And my spirit becomes dizzy In all the commotion. Understanding seems to be the forgotten trend The one we all dreamt about While sleepless in bed late at night Drifting back to a time more humble, Attentive, confident, and busy In finding the art of the emotion. The more I find it so, the simplicity And straight arrow it is, The more I blast the complexity of form It takes to focus and aim. This wild fire of feeling Should not be so responsibility driven. Understanding seems the desired pleasure That makes us reflect back On why we should have regret, On why we're forced to see naïve as kind, And experience as hard And on why we still think it as pleasure…. In case you don't know-or don't understand, I speak of love- the feeling That can bring you to disbelieve Once you see the light, Once you find what it's all about. Disbelief shines because it can't be that simple It just can't be a love like…. Like friendship Which spawned and evolved Off this link we have yet found Yet find reason To think it existed at all. It's the strange behavior of love, A behavior which splits like religion With faithful followers, blaspheming souls And agnostics who are content enough not to worry Whether they have it right or not. It's the God-sent reasoning Which we were birthed to not know For Reason was wrong In our God-sent text, right? Love defines us in this world with humane powers That still balances our animal instincts for prey Tearing into the body of another In every dimension of matter Then walking on twos, away with purpose. Love takes us on that roller coaster ride Where the drops are long And gut wrenching, Yet we climb back when we are forced off too soon. I know what love is all about. I really, really know love. I fight for it to exist, only to dethrone it I welcome it with open arms Sometimes to strangle it into mercy I spend countless hours of my time Staring down that tunnel, Staring straight into the light Because I understand love, And I know love will always make me dizzy In more ways than one…. EAA2000
Reason for writing:
People spend too much time trying to define love, when really it is so damn simple to identify. The problem is when people forget the effort it takes to maintain that simplicity...
Birth sign: Sagittarius
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