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Sahil Suri Mar 2014
Before I begin, allow me to explain,
I too loved.. once,
so think of me not as some cynic-
nor as a master in the ways of love-
but rather as a keen observer-
now, that may mean I have nothing to offer you-
no insider knowledge-
no secrets of love-

But I do  know how to tell a true love story -

Interested?
Fantastic-
So let’s begin,

True love, if there is such a thing at all,
is like the thread that makes the cloth
you can’t tease it out-
you can’t extract meaning-
without ending up deeper in the web-
and it always remains-
hidden under layers -

In the end, that’s all you can really say about any
True love story-
They don’t generalize-
They don’t analyze-
They arent found-
They just… happen.

and that’s what makes them “true.”

But what is this coveted “love” -
the emotion?-
the act?-
the mentality?-

Love, is a constant state of illusionment-

A collective agreement amongst humans-
that it, whatever it may be,  can be treated as an excuse
for recklessness, irrationality, and misplaced strife-  

A quid pro quo  between two individuals-
to agree that they are doing something-
anything-
other than mindlessly drudging through life-

Now that is not to say that what love creates is pointless-
I said before, I have felt the embrace of love
Love festers between individuals for so long
it has no option-
but to mould the physical to itself-
and alter our personalities-

Characterized by spontaneity-
by indulgence-
by risk-
to love is the most dangerous experience in existence-
the act of being fully vulnerable with another-
while promising not to hurt them the same-

Love is characterized by vulnerability-
and the constant fear of being hurt-

So you want to know how to write a true love story?
be honest-
dwell not on the “romantic” blindfolds that keep us irrationally seeking our partners-
dwell not on the on the memories of a love that blossomed-
reveal the core of love -

A true love story comes from gut instinct-
A true love story, comes from experience.
A true love story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe

So I said I loved once,
allow me to elaborate-

I too have felt the “butterfly stomach”
- where the insides of the lovestruck turn on their host and manifests the emotional significance of meeting “the one”

I too have spent the day daydreaming...
-Lost in the thought of “the one”, seeking brief breaks from reality in my mind between moments of  utter normalcy

I too have melted into a puddle of emotion….
-lying next to “the one” as we slowly spill more and more of the secrets that bound us as individuals, joining a spirit much larger than ourselves-

I too have felt... invincible-
-to know that I’ve found something more significant than myself. Something that replaces the fear of the future.. and makes it something to look forward to.

Yes, I too have fallen in love.
and I did just that-
I fell.





..And that is my true love story-
Edit: Thank you everyone. It has meant a lot.
M Apr 2020
A generation navigating illusionment:
I am one. Excavation; i sift. Shaking
a plastic basket.

Round - and channel mouths spout
a wire crosshatch. I
Tap
   Against
         My palm.

Fine flour lands on the counter and
In my head I listen to the same songs
because I already know the words.

I look for a truth outside my mind
because on weekdays I tell myself
I’m not worth knowing.

How do you stop hating yourself
When you hate yourself because
You hate yourself?

When I slide my hand across the counter,
White flour mist puffs and I listen:

Mac Miller’s alive. He said he’s
surviving on *****, almonds, and granola bars.

Grasped in some five fingers
A thin red handle.
Not so serious poem trying to illustrate what being in your 20’s in 2020 is like.
Feedback/criticism always appreciated <3
Lucy S Draper Jan 2022
nobody prepared me to graduate into an an abyss
they said get a degree it's all you need
but they didn't warn me of this
i followed all the steps,
passed all the tests,
scored all good grades,
but still i'm afraid there is something i missed
21 years
21 years my whole life's lead here
now i hear
find a real job, start a career
yet i fear i'm nowhere near this ideal
feel like nothing is real
or something's amiss
and i really believed i could achieve this dream
clung to a fantasy called expectation
a fantastic dedication that all
falls
falls
falls
apart
in a violent eradication
upon graduation
how bitter
of naivety to reminisce
to sobriety and variety
and illusionment before dis-
Dan Hess Jul 2019
Oh, supple godhead,
I must partake of your fruit
to sate my interminable appetite

My mind is agape
with nonsensical rambling
My heart is in flames
and my body is eroding
But my soul soars ever further

Though you, heroine,
carry the sun on your shoulders,
My burden is superfluous still
We call to arms the hand of man
Stopping the world in its tracks

Until we drift through cold,
and blackened space,
or smash into the sun
Burn all our coal
Our forests wither
And still we dream of angels

Inside ourselves is a cocktail of opulence, greed
Ignorance, intermeshing substitutes with needs
Illusionment our only passion, for we bleed
But we escape our pain with substance

And in altitudes
above our perception,
you sit
And watch
But do nothing
ash 3d
another one where karma is late to arrive,
so the good one drops, becomes the fallen.

if the entirety of it is bad,
and all the ones in wrongs have been the ones in winning —
fair, the word doesn’t exist in their world.
they rule, righteous, claiming facts and sharing synergy.

carry hearts on sleeve, be called a fool.
hide them up and lock them away — what of their use?

it’s pessimism, perhaps — they shine so bright
you can never notice how the gold they sit upon
was once the armor of those they claimed they owned.
taken away, the gold mixed with the blood of their bodies
shone so bright, they seemed like the real angels —
despite in wrong.

believe the words, shared and added to.
write your own story, but having to explain? to whom?

they began their rule,
and so brought the world’s ruin,
like an ancient prescribed rune.

and imagine what of those who wore those armors,
clad in protection, having stood in the rights,
aimed at survival.

sweethearts claiming they do the thinking with hearts,
the ones using the brains win — what of the play?
unfair. brutalist.

the claims of karma proved to be theory,
like justice served when the case dropped cold.
karma took too late to arrive,
so the good ones dropped —
they’ve become the fallen.

similarities of both, striving for what they assume
they ought to stand up for.
what’s truly the right? and what truly
would classify as the wrong?

and i stand in front of the graves of ghosts
who shifted their realities,
joined forces with the wrongs.

which side do i pick?
can’t i remain myself as i was?

learn to relive, every single tale told, like rekindling —
but if all of it is a lie, who ought to try
uncover the truth in living?

if revenge is best when served in silence,
and payback is stuck, suspended in the infinite stretching —
do i let them take my spot, turn me like them?
dark, skittish, scrawny, ruthless, brutal,
an unmistakable hunger to achieve
while crushing those standing in betweens.

and who shall bring this ruin?
or find what is the reality,
not term illusionment as realism?

do i walk over them, join hands with the evil?

if kindness is serving as a punishment,
and love has claimed forces with the unforgiven;
if accepting and mistaking genuineness
has become a way of calling the wrong ones up close —

will being the unforgiven, chastised,
and falling lower, off the fallen standard —
will their faces downcast?

do you listen to them,
let them take over your story,
and narrate it from their point of views?

trying to please, to resist, and not hurt
when speaking the accord shall disagree —
is that a play of the good,
or not wanting to submit to the opposite?

or do you become one,
amongst, amidst —
and regret changing,
letting the murk seep,
just cause—

the ones falling, the ones fallen —
do they fear, or long as yearners
for who they were in the beginning?

feels like being stuck
in the purgatory of the good and the bad.
creating a new one— a circle that intersects, unites both.
we’ll call it: the unforgivers' cursing wrongdoers.

— The End —