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VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-04-03 11:43 AM

We Chose to Love

Truly
it was our choice;
we chose to love
to give our voice

We loved each other
it was true;
I loved me
and
you loved you.

A bond
for two
there could not be
with you loving you
and me loving me.

The object of
our rapt devotion
was great enough
to fill an ocean.

Yet perfect care
and rapt attention
would fall too short
would fail convention.

Drawing each
to joy untold
was not a thing
we could behold.

For love,
though powerful,
could not surpass
the rift we placed,
the great crevasse.

For loving you
and loving me
for each self
could fill the sea.

Unity
could not be found
in how we made
our world go round...

and round, and round!

©April 3, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

1 posted 2004-04-03 12:54 PM

I did not love by choice at first
it was completely on its own
but years passed by and made me cry
so I choose to love rather than be alone

Grover
Senior Member

since 2004-01-27

Posts 1967
London, ON, Canada

2 posted 2004-04-03 01:11 PM

Unique perspective.

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

3 posted 2004-04-04 12:45 PM

Interesting write, Virginia. I love it!

Martie

Moderator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

4 posted 2004-04-04 04:09 PM

Virginia

Wondering here, because to my way of thinking...to love yourself makes it easier to be loved and to love another. Enjoyed this very much!

nakdthoughts
Member Laureate

since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

5 posted 2004-04-04 04:22 PM

We loved each other
it was true;
I loved me
and
you loved you.

~smiling~ at the creativity here

M

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

6 posted 2004-04-04 04:32 PM

Yes, Martie, we need to love who we are before we can manage to truly love somone else...the love here, within this poem, is a narcissistic type of love...a selfish love. It's the "whatever makes me FEEL good kind of love, me first." I think that kind of love is the kind that ultiimately destroys relationships unless both members of it learn how to put the best of the other first. So many different kinds of emotions are tied up in the single English word of "love." Ah, to know for certain the kind of love of which one speaks. Greek here would do wonders for us all. Glad you all have liked this one. Hope the form of love was understood.

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

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