What is love anyway? May 2012

 I'm not certain what love is

what the difference is

between loving, love or being in love,

only I think now some love

needs to be unrequited or perhaps

 I've not been wise enough

 to see it that way, to admire from afar,

to learn all that is and must be

about the subject of it,

 and to escape the need for it,

 since sometimes,

 the need is an illusion

and what we have already is more than enough,

 to love is not always to be loved,

 to lose it does not mean to give up loving,

 distance doesn't make the heart grow fonder,

but yet it does make it seem clearer,

 if I could only be wise enough

to accept that face and to accept

 that fact that she has every right

to choose who to love , or not,

 who to be with or not,

who she can trust to love,

and who she should not,

what she cannot control

my love, remote or not,

 a lesson I need to accept.

 

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