Love is comparable to death
It grips, it holds, it takes
You're confused, you're lost
You fight, you fall
You wish, you're worn

Take me where you will
Blow me when I stand still
See through me and steal my thoughts

You can have all, yes, I'll fall
Like death you can take me
Take me until am no more
But even though I lose all
I'll forever retain my purity.

I never thought I'll give the background to this piece (just posted it initially for posterity ) but this thread here to a large degree does justice

https://www.nairaland.com/1245328/signs-show-love-partner-too


Its all about the pains of unrequited love. loving someone so much yet the person knows it but rather chooses to use that as a stick to beat you with. You know what you should do but like death, you're powerless against it.



I wonder how many peeps here have felt that way

You are so unbearably romantic. I never knew men were romantic. I used to be romantic but experience has slapped it out of my head

Nice poem, btw

Ishilove: You are so unbearably romantic. I never knew men were romantic.

'roma' kini ? Funny enough few ladies I've dated hav said that but truth is my outward personae can't be more different. People see me as this choleric, anti social, perfectionist.

Ishilove: I used to be romantic but experience has slapped it out of my head

Nice poem, btw

Signs of the end time Ladies, should be romantic ! but then in the famous words of the great nairaland troll - 190 - 'Its not in the dictionary of Nigerian ladies'.

On a more serious note however, that's the essence of the last line.
I'll continue to believe in what I believe, Regardless of my experiences, as long as the basis for my trust still stands.
that you sometimes toil for seven years only to get Leah, doesn't mean Rachel isn't there somewhere, waiting for you

pak:

On a more serious note however, that's the essence of the last line.
I'll continue to believe in what I believe, Regardless of my experiences, as long as the basis for my trust still stands.
that you sometimes toil for seven years only to get Leah, doesn't mean Rachel isn't there somewhere, waiting for you

*lips wobbling. Sniffing*

O pak, you just restored my faith in love and lomance *sob*

Please pass me a hankie... I'm sorry, I'm really emotional right now.

*honks nose loudly*

pak:

'roma' kini ? Funny enough few ladies I've dated hav said that but truth is my outward personae can't be more different. People see me as this choleric, anti social, perfectionist.

Remove the 'anti-social' and you'll be my twinnie

True.
Love is as strong as death is.