Why love? | Teen Ink
  1. Home
  2. Poetry
  3. Why love?

Why love?

December 1, 2012
By Virginia PLATINUM, Bartonville, Texas
More by this author
Virginia PLATINUM, Bartonville, Texas
21 articles 0 photos 5 comments

Favorite Quote:
And yet, through the gloom and the light,<br /> The fate of a nation was riding that night<br /> And the flame struck out by the steed in its flight<br /> Kindled the land into flame with its heat<br /> <br /> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

View profile

Why do I feel as though
The sands of time go too slow
And the bewitchment of
Love fires far too hot.
It carries me away with its vertigo.
Why are hearts contrary?
Why does desire marry
Reason? And if youth seem
Long, why does life so contentment parry?

© Shannon E., Glendale, AZ

The author's comments:
Wherein I ask the question why . . . why love when faced with the pangs of reality? Why seek it when life parries you every step of the way? Because . . . Love is the stuff life is made of. Without love, it would be World War II across the centuries.
Post a comment
Submit your own

Similar Articles

Previous Next
Poetry
Sunburnt and Tasteless
By Anonymous
Poetry
Boogy Man Blues
By Anonymous
Poetry
Him
By twilightprincess SILVER
Marysville, Pennsylvania
twilightprincess SILVER, Marysville, Pennsylvania
6 articles 0 photos 3 comments

Favorite Quote:
&quot;Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.&quot; Keri Russell

View profile
Poetry
An Artist's Mind
By Anonymous
Poetry
Generically Hispanic
By Anonymous
Poetry
Sun
By Anonymous

JOIN THE DISCUSSION

This article has 0 comments.