Letter to Love

Dear Love,

These are the lessons I have learned under your glorious tutelage:

• An hour feels like an eternity.
• Distance is harder to swallow than a rock.
• There’s a game named after you.
• Getting to know you is a waste of soul.
• You hurt worse than mutilation.
• Memory is an enemy.
• When you are not sweet, you’re a dick.

And you taught me all of these things for almost next to nothing. A study in contradiction with only my heart to pay. Thank you for teaching me all the dark tints of emotion. 

Yours sincerely, 
Olen van Cilland

I agree with it all except for the last part about having gained nothing from Love’s hard lessons. Here’s my response:

Dear Love,
These are the lessons I have learned under your glorious tutelage:

 

• Eternity sounds f*****g awesome when associated with the person you love.
• First of all, no one would swallow a rock. Second, a person remains close to the heart if love is true, therefore distance is not an issue.    
• There’s a game named after you. And it’s fun. Seriously, you should try it.
• Getting to know you is a gain of another soul- a soulmate.
•  You make being mutilated sound pretty damn merciful. 
• Memory is a reminder to love, even your enemies.
• When you are not sweet, you’re sour. I like sour.

 

The more love I give, the more I gain. In losing it, I grow stronger; in gaining, I grow fonder. Thank you for teaching me how to win this battle called the storm of human emotions.

 

Yours sincerely,  

A girl repairing her broken heart.

Author's Note

Not a poem, but a response letter to a post I saw on tumblr. Let me know what you think! (On the letters, rather than the writing itself).

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

I like both poems. I like your poem better. Love is a lesson for us to appreciate and be thankful when love can touch our heart and mind. No escape from pain and hurt. Just needed to be added to lesson to walk slow and easy into love and emotion. I like the sour part of this poem. A strong ending to a excellent poem.
Coyote

[Sagar Waingankar]

Beautiful! I liked every part of it! This is something unique, something that I haven't seen before! Love and Light! Keep the work on!