Unapologetic Loving
How love, much like a climbing plant, curves its way up a wasteland of a heart and makes it beautiful.
Happy new month. Isn’t it funny how the days are long and short at the exact same time? What strange times we now live in.
I have been thinking a lot about love this last month and this trickled over into this new month. How love, much like a climbing plant, curves its way up a wasteland of a heart and makes it beautiful. How love,this thing we can’t touch but feel, we can’t see yet everywhere we turn its absence remains visible.
After finishing the 30 days of poetry challenge I am still enamoured by the idea of love. What good love is and where bad love lives. I hope to write about this, in different voices, sometimes a poet, sometimes a psychologist but always as a lover. I hope you will join me on that journey, but till then here’s the last week of poems for you to mull over.
I am entering the business,
Of unapologetic loving,
Of unbridled joy.
Will you buy from me today?
Love
Good love
Whole love
Safe love
True love
Was always
Inside you
Women,
With their fine caramel skin
Long ebony hair
Were never yours to touch
Never yours to own
Never yours to have.
Rain conjures up your face
I don't understand it
How water falls from the sky
How it mixes with the dirt
How plants grow
How they thrive and nourish.
I don't understand it.
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How I fell for you so hard
How we mixed into one.
How we grew apart
How we withered and died
I don't understand it
You smell of warmth
The soft glow of sunlight
On my skin
Oh please
Will you stay.
Heartbreak is good for poetry
And poetry is good for love
And love is good for heartbreak
And this is the way of life.
Some people
will not love you
This is okay.
Some will take
The love you give
Throwing it in your face
Like waste.
Some will be
Careless
Reckless
Childish even
With the love
you choose to give.
And yet still,
You must love.
Love is a language,
Deserved only,
By they who will learn it.
Inside you
Is greatness unknown
Seek it
That’s a wrap for poetry month, thank you so much for joining me on that journey. While you’re here, be sure to let me know what your favourite poem was.
XoXo
J.A.
