Love Is Strange

I love when poets open with a question, it draws the reader in to want to know more, to explore this question and find the answer within the same poem.

Love most certainly is strange, it can completely turn your world upside down and make you do/say things you normally wouldn't. Love makes people batsh** crazy lol. It can be a wonderful, amazing completely out of this world experience, but also it can be the worst thing you ever felt in your life, you would rather have your head bashed against the wall than go through it again. Love is complicated and completely worth the heartache at the same time. How strange that we put ourselves through this crap? Lol

Second stanza: This reminds me of maybe an online love? Of talking to someone that is miles away, possibly even in different countries and you fall completely in love with them because of their personality. You may not have ever met them, but you love them for who they are and how they think. You get to know them intellectually and emotionally before you do physically.

"And how one can learn to love someone
that they never thought they could."

-This happens more often than you would imagine. Someone falling in love with someone they never pictured themselves with. Whether it's someone they have admired and thought they weren't good enough for or someone they might have grown up with and seen only as a friend only to realize one day that their true love has been standing in front of them. Sometimes God has to open our eyes for us.

Third stanza: We do love people that don't deserve our love, people that will never in a million years love us back. It hurts, but sometimes we have to go through that heartache to realize that it just isn't meant to be and to learn from a mistake. Some people are brought into our lives solely for a lesson.

Fourth stanza: This stanza I can relate to... I can relate to loving someone with my absolute everything only to realize later on that... people just change. They become people we never thought in a million years and we begin to resent them for that. It sucks... because it's true, we worry about what the next love will be... if they will change and turn into some unknown person we will loathe all over again.

Fifth stanza: I've pondered this same question myself. If someone is out there, not necessarily a young person, but an elder that has never loved at all. It makes one think if they are lonely or if they are completely content because they have never had to endure such heartache? Or if the loneliness itself is their own form of heartache? I like how this stanza made me think... it made me want to go in search of someone who has never loved at all and find out their story... it makes one question why they chose that route in life.

Ending: Great ending! We let love control our lives, it's true. We all try to understand everything love can offer. What's interesting is that no love is ever the same... it's like it has it's own identity.

First/second- I think a lot of people can agree that loveis a very strange thing. It always seems when we are in love that we get hurt. We want to give so much to the pperson we do love. And our heart is the most precious thing we have inside. And when we give it away we give up the "power" we hold. The heart love's anyone In a way. I believe that love just is. We don't know how to control it. But I agree with the second stanza. It's hard to fathom how we can love certain people indeed. Also when we feel like we cannot love I think that's when we love the most.

Third/fourth- I love how you make this person out to be such a perfect person even angelic like. They love this person even if they don't love you back. I know how hard that can be. Again such a sad tone in this voice of this poem. Trust is very difficult to give away, sometimes even more than love. Your words are so very true. When we find "the one" we always think it's forever. So when life hits us in the face and the other person doesn't love us anymore it feels like our world ends.

Fifth/end- It's really hard to know what love really is . I love the question here or the thought you use. We each question a lot of things about the world or people in general. I am sure there are people who have never felt loved though. We can all learn to love if we find the right person. I loved the last lines. We never can truly understand love. Is it an emotion. I am not sure. Just know that your heart knows what love truly is. Anyway this is a great message that says a lot and asks a lot that we dont know. I love how you make us think. Xx