The background
Many years ago, once upon a time, I dated a guy who took personal offense to the dark motifs and attitudes that often came out in my poems. He seemed to think it said something about him and us that I saw love as an emotional burden and hated that the feeling often seemed to steal reason and rationality when it appeared. So, in my oh-so-petty nature, I decided to write him the sickliest, sweetest, most syrupy love poem that my brain could concoct that day. I think it served its purpose because I thought he would be happy, but apparently, it was patronizing so he never asked me to force a happy, loving poem out of myself again.
The Poem: “My Concession to Love”
There’s something immensely beautiful about you
Your peace radiates
Touching and embracing all that you meet
Your joy and laughter
Remain through all life’s struggles
You are an angel on Earth
A blessing to the World
Heaven’s perfect gift to me
You were made specifically
Designed with a purpose
Created and crafted with my happiness in mind
Drafted with the very essence of my bliss
Moulded to be steadfast and strong at my side
Cut from the same cloth
To feel my pain & to dry my tears
You are more than a man
Above description and category
More than human thought can comprehend
Valued more than any words
Of any language from any tongue
You are the epitome of every desire
Every fantasy, every dream
You are my everything
My all and my only
The center of my universe
My life until this moment is but a pale and distant memory
Blurred in comparison to the brilliance that you bring
Never again will I feel this all encompassing love
No, not love
Completion
The knowledge of utter fulfillment
That from this moment I am whole
That the very memory of you will sustain me
That the person you have crafted
From the shell I was before
Can never be broken
Never suffer
That nothing in life can ever hurt me
Merely because you deigned to love me
To love a mere mortal with flaws and scars
That you in all your perfection could find me beautiful
Nothing can take this away from me
No one can love you more
And never again shall I be lonely
Because your memory will sustain me
Your love’s glow shall always surround me
December 7, 2009
I Wrote A Thing 