Musings by The Poet Loriet - And the Greatest of These is Love

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And the Greatest of These is Love

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She sits in the garden
with her cherished friend
as tears run down her face
and she chokes on her sobs.
"I think I may be very sad,
but I'm not really sure,"
she confesses to her friend.

The man on the subway
can't stop laughing
at a private joke from work.
He snickers and snorts and
can barely contain his glee
as those around him stare.
He blurts out, "I am just
so happy today...I feel like
I'm on top of the world,
but it's not for certain."

These examples sound absurd,
yet we do that with one
simple emotion we feel.
We do that with love.

He looked at me with
the purest tenderness
on his face, touched me
ever-so-gently and said,
"I am falling in love with you"
with pure adoration in his eyes.

Later, he told me...
I didn't mean it.
It was all a lie.
I don't think I know
what love really is.
Or...maybe I feel it,
but I just can't say it.
I don't want to feel it.
Or maybe it's just an
easy thing to say.

Love was not meant to
be denied. We make it
so much more difficult
than it has to be.

It was there,
like a big beautiful
fragile bubble
floating between us.
But he said...
just

let it go.

Lori Beal