I Hate That (Only U Make Loving Fun)

a poem inspired by a song title ("You Make Loving Fun")

I hate that you're

Still the only one

Who lived to make

The loving fun

Because I know well

When all's said and done

You'll always remain

My Moon and my Sun

But I will never

Ever be your One

And in the end

That's not all that fun

Jim Lonsdale Poetry 2025

Author's Note

Inspired by the title of the Fleetwood Mac song "You Make Loving Fun"

Reviews

[RomaJ]

There’s such aching honesty in your words. I love how the poem captures the push and pull of longing..the joy someone brings, paired with the quiet sorrow of knowing you can never fully belong to them. The rhythm and repetition make the emotion linger, bittersweet and vivid, like love glimpsed through a fragile lens.

[Desert Knave]

Thank you. The song has always been a melancholy one for me. ~Jim

[Michael Sun Bear]

Your poem may be fictional, inspired by the song, but you elicited a lot of real memories for me. I knew that woman, loved that woman, lost that woman. She broke my heart, absolutely shattered it.

[Desert Knave]

Thank you. Some of this one is also biographical, I just didn't have better words than theirs. ~Jim

[JessyJacob]

Hi Desert,

I am in home build over desert, its pretty comples, and for few, happiest song, it makes sad for few. I feel love should be fun, and i know fun makes you smile, if love is there there is pain too, but you explicitly said you are my lovve and fun too.

Thank you for sharing beautiful poem, i see here writer is an engineer going to run the oil business and i wish you good luck with every cell of my heart.

Jessy Jacob.

[Desert Knave]

Thank you. ~Jim