Words of Love

[TKei]

Words of Love

Think about it for a minute.
Think about the last time you told someone
Other than your partner
That you love them.
Think about the last time you told someone
That you hated them.
Think about the people you said you love.
Think about how many times you said it.
Think about the people you said you hate.
Think about how many times you said it.
Are they balanced?
About the same?
About equal?
Should they be about equal?

Since when has hating ever gotten us anywhere, since when has it had any kind of benefit on any of us? It hasn't. Hating doesn't do anything for us. It makes everything worse than it already was. You can love someone, and forgive them, and not worry about mistakes they've made, or you can hate them for what they've done, and never let it go, and live without them for the rest of your life. But that won't do you any good. None of it will. Hating someone won't get you anywhere you want to be. Hatred brought us wars, and killed six million Jews, and split powerful nations into fragments. Love barely had the chance to bring us anything; it never seems to last long enough.

So what does love mean?
What is the definition of love?
Something that someone
In some high-class school
Wrote into a book?
Is it merely two people
Attracted to each other?
I don't think so.
The problem is
Whenever people hear a word
They use it improperly
At some point
And it's definition changes
And people use that
Twisted, altered, modified definition
Instead of the original;
What the word was intended to mean.


Love,
Which was once known
As not being
Greedy,
Jealous,
Or prideful,
Has been altered.
People will claim to love
Another person
When their real motives
Are exactly what love
Was never intended
To be.

Now I don't think I'm any better than the rest of you. We all have faults. This isn't a warning, or a lesson. It's advice, to all of us. I don't expect us to eliminate all hatred. That isn't in our control. But like I've said many times before, while we can't be perfect, we can be better. I don't think we'll ever make a perfect society, controlled by man. I don't think we'll ever end wars and hatred in our own. But we can do better; better than this chaotic mess we have right now. At least for a little while, we might actually know what it's like to stop, look around, and feel what love really is.

Maybe,
If we're lucky,
It will teach us something
We never imagined
Was ever possible.
And all of that
Will begin
And end
With
Love.

Notes:
To clarify, for the reader's understanding, a comma in the middle of a line is a short pause, at the end of a line, a slightly more than medium pause. A line with no punctuation at the end is a medium pause. A period is a long or medium-long pause, a semicolon is a medium-long pause.

The two paragraph-like stanzas are meant to be read at a faster pace.

Also, though I cannot control what you do, I ask that if you share this anywhere, or with anyone, you state that it was written by Kei (Pronounced 'Kay').