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Nighttime Confessions
You asked me
How I felt about
All that is and was
Torn around us.
What love looks
Like when through
My eyes I’ve witnessed
Broken attempts.
I lifted my head
Took a sip of cheap wine
And looked you in the eyes.
What I know is this,
There is love and there
Is reality.
Rarely in the views of
Mankind are they intertwined.
The reality is that to find
Love you have to be okay
Without it.
Be self sufficient
Because love isn’t medication
It will not sustain you
Carry your own fucking weight
It isn’t hard to own yourself.
What is hard is relying on
Everyone else to
Because they won’t,
They’ll fail and all you’ll
Ever know of ‘love’
Is being dropped;
Is becoming more broken.
Love is not in emotion,
Love cannot feel hurt
You feel hurt because
The absence of pure adoration,
But I guess for most it’s easier to say
You fell out of love
Then to admit you never knew what it was.
I love dangerously.
If you invite me to love you
Then I will not let you sit on
Your flaws
I will throw your own potential
At you until we’ve wrung out
The useless nuisance of
Self doubt and excuses
And I can only hope
That you would do the same
For me.
Love does not always look like
Acceptance and agreeing,
It sometimes is the eyes
We ourselves cannot find
To become stronger.
Because the only thing
Love can and ever will be
Is wellbeing.
And we, we are whole all
By ourselves and that
Is why I think we chose
Each other
Because I don’t need you
And you don’t need me
But we want it.
And come what may
Whatever the weather
I know that we
Can sustain ourselves,
But together
And that is what I believe in.
Love.
How I felt about
All that is and was
Torn around us.
What love looks
Like when through
My eyes I’ve witnessed
Broken attempts.
I lifted my head
Took a sip of cheap wine
And looked you in the eyes.
What I know is this,
There is love and there
Is reality.
Rarely in the views of
Mankind are they intertwined.
The reality is that to find
Love you have to be okay
Without it.
Be self sufficient
Because love isn’t medication
It will not sustain you
Carry your own fucking weight
It isn’t hard to own yourself.
What is hard is relying on
Everyone else to
Because they won’t,
They’ll fail and all you’ll
Ever know of ‘love’
Is being dropped;
Is becoming more broken.
Love is not in emotion,
Love cannot feel hurt
You feel hurt because
The absence of pure adoration,
But I guess for most it’s easier to say
You fell out of love
Then to admit you never knew what it was.
I love dangerously.
If you invite me to love you
Then I will not let you sit on
Your flaws
I will throw your own potential
At you until we’ve wrung out
The useless nuisance of
Self doubt and excuses
And I can only hope
That you would do the same
For me.
Love does not always look like
Acceptance and agreeing,
It sometimes is the eyes
We ourselves cannot find
To become stronger.
Because the only thing
Love can and ever will be
Is wellbeing.
And we, we are whole all
By ourselves and that
Is why I think we chose
Each other
Because I don’t need you
And you don’t need me
But we want it.
And come what may
Whatever the weather
I know that we
Can sustain ourselves,
But together
And that is what I believe in.
Love.
Published 21st Aug 2018
| Edited 1st Nov 2018
Author's Note
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love cast out fear.”
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21st Aug 2018 8:51pm
"Love does not always look like
Acceptance and agreeing,
It sometimes is the eyes
We ourselves cannot find
To become stronger" ...that's it in a nutshell...enjoyed your thoughts
Acceptance and agreeing,
It sometimes is the eyes
We ourselves cannot find
To become stronger" ...that's it in a nutshell...enjoyed your thoughts
21st Aug 2018 10:17pm
21st Aug 2018 9:10pm
This totally resonates. I agree with the message and it is beautifully written. Many people confuse love with need or desire. They feel empty or lacking inside and run around looking for somebody to fill their holes. It's infantile...
Love is a state of being inside of me, love shows whatever face it needs to show to do the best for all in any given situalion....like you say "wringing out potential"
Not some soggy, mushy idea about using someone for sex or to not feel lonely....
I like your style of writing....you don't hold back
Love is a state of being inside of me, love shows whatever face it needs to show to do the best for all in any given situalion....like you say "wringing out potential"
Not some soggy, mushy idea about using someone for sex or to not feel lonely....
I like your style of writing....you don't hold back
21st Aug 2018 10:15pm
I’m so glad this related to your own discovery! Thank you for your kind words. Xx
21st Aug 2018 10:16pm
You are rockin' here Isgyppie !
Love it...not loved it...cause I am still reading it over and over...;)
Well felt , thought , penned , liberated from word's slumber !
As I saw them perform it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k&list=RDgDbAtWpoA6k&t=107
Love it...not loved it...cause I am still reading it over and over...;)
Well felt , thought , penned , liberated from word's slumber !
As I saw them perform it :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDbAtWpoA6k&list=RDgDbAtWpoA6k&t=107
22nd Aug 2018 00:46am
Thank you, I’m glad you were/are loving it!!(; thanks for sharing this song, lots of feel in it. Xx
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Anonymous
1st Nov 2018 11:17am
A long time ago there was a writer called Aish who stole my breath the way that she used to write. It was an outpouring of something so pure it was almost sacred. This piece reminds me of her.
Pure.
Thank you for sharing.
-M
Pure.
Thank you for sharing.
-M
19th Nov 2018 2:32am
1st Nov 2018 11:52pm
I love this poem! I’ve been telling people for years that I don’t want someone who needs me, I want somebody who wants me!
19th Nov 2018 2:33am
Anonymous
17th Nov 2018 4:02am
amen.
19th Nov 2018 2:34am
