I hope you know that love is never still,
It can go downhill.

It can be blooming with flowers but the next thing you know; thunder and lightning is already striking.

I'm afraid that you'll be surprised,
For love is never stabilised.

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If you happen to find a poet
hiding shyly beneath a stone.
Gently put him in your pocket
and carry him safely home.

Show him love and kindness,
take time to get to know him.
And if you smile so sweetly
he will gladly pen you a poem.

For if you hold his real value,
and recognise his true worth.
He'll look deep into your soul,
to give you the sun, moon and earth.

© Pagan Paul (05/04/17)

I thought I could stay,
But the sun gave me signs to breakaway,
I didn't want to stay,
Wanted to sway,
Then I went away.

For a moment, I sat still,
Another moment, looked for thrill,
Wondered about a whole life to fill,
Just couldn't find the time to ****.

Got a car with pedals I couldn't reach to drive,
Like a bee stuck in a hive,
Felt like a swimmer that has lost the desire to dive,
I was just struggling, fighting, and climbing to strive.

The wind was the greatest tempest,
It could even topple down an empress,
They didn't let me rest,
They left me helpless,
The torture was endless,
So I don't think that leaving's reckless,
If I stayed I wouldn't be here in Venice.

So long so gone with love poured dry,
Both hands grasping still the hopes that died.
The forlorn fate of lovers they couldn't defy,
Alike the stars that didn't collide.

I was so used to thinking that if my significant other listens to the same songs I do, enjoys the food I eat with relish too, has that mundane routine, peculiar habits, and reads the cliché books pages by pages, that I will fall hard and he will love me as I imagined he would.

But the basic rule of a magnet pull is that the South pole is attracted to the North pole. Humans are not robots, humans are of a giant and complex ball of stardust. And I am a perplexed mortal being with mechanisms going about, confused.

Because now, he hates the melancholic songs I adore, he craves the things I don't, his ideas for dates are different than mine and he is not me. But how our love conquers the rest, how it ignites the big flame, how it makes our souls long for one another; these defy the notion of being alike to fall in love.