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So tell me, love, what is love like?

  • Writer: SJP
    SJP
  • Jan 8, 2020
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 8


Saying what love is like is like saying what a colour is like to someone who has yet to see colours

It is the unlikely probability that you will encounter something so strong, the maybe of one too many realities


So imagine this - you know they have seen the colour

you did not have a chance to see it yourself yet

And you think

oh these silly fools!

You can see how they are blinded by this colour, a colour so pure it compares to none other

In a fairy tales it is the softest pink or the strongest red

You see how they can't stop grinning and smiling

And you shake your heads at their silliness


And yet -

Yet when you see the colour, my friend, feel this wonderful feeling

It becomes the most natural thing to you

As if it was always in you, just waiting to be discovered by you

Suddenly the probable is very much real

And you can call yourself a lucky one


Once you discover that feeling you realise there's more than you thought -

Love can be, much like the colour spectrum, infinite for that one person

It has thousands and thousands of shades,

it can be in the dark and light,

it can be deep yet tender

it can beyond just a desire and well beyond the night, still blooming in the pink hours of dawn.

You think how a sunrise has never looked so beautiful

- but it is the same; only you have changed, oh look at you, how blinded you are now!

But oh - how wonderful it feels, does it not?


You will know that you are acting like a fool

Such a happy fool

Your hand in theirs will be where you want to stay, right here

And perhaps endure some more great maybes

time is always on our heels

with your hand in theirs


You will have looked for that colour everyone keeps talking about

Once you find it hold onto it

Even if it's just for a while


You will walk this earth

As blind as you have become

Your hand in theirs

With a love so incomprehensible and yet so simple

A love so intense that it goes beyond our sight and goes deep down

That makes all our organs soft

And our bones all crazy


Your hand in theirs, right here

is the place where you will want to watch the sunrise

for the rest of your life.


So look out for that, friend, or else it will just pass you by.

 
 
 

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