Love as a Concept

Love as a Concept

Is my love like an orange?
Can I peel it and break the segments up?
Giving to those I love a portion of it.
Cutting it into even smaller pieces, so I can love more?
Tasting its sweetness as we bite into it together?
However, if love is an orange, it has limits.
I would only be able to love so few.
Maybe give it to only one, so we could taste it to its fullest.
For an orange divided into small finite pieces would have no taste.

What if my love is a force, or a generated power like electricity?
Again, something that I could let flow out of me.
One that I could spread out and let others consume.
Ah, I say that would be better than an orange.
I think not, for again electricity diminishes as it spreads.
Only so many sparks can fly and expand out before its power is too weak.
Again maybe if I only share it with one, would that be the answer?
Sadly, alas electricity only flows in one direction, to the consumer.
I would only empty myself and become so weak and have no power.


What if love is an idea, a conceived thought, in short a concept?
I could share it with others I love without dividing it.
Those who love me would consume it and build upon it.
A synergy would form, one which it could build and all could feed it.
It could grow and not be diminished as it spread.
Just like the orange we could all taste fully its sweetness upon our lips.
Electricity would not flow from each of us but through us to each other.
It would increase and become a glowing flickering ember that could ignite.
We would send flames of desire, passion and vision across the universe.

By Oisin/Highlander

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

To define love. Would take a million words. I did like the questions and the ways you defined love. A strong ending to the amazing poetry my friend.
Coyote

[H.L. Cerveise]

Thank you for reading and reviewing this writing. I am glad you enjoyed it.

[Coyote Poetry]

I did enjoy and you are welcome.

[Diamond]

Yes HL, I remember having read this one. Of course this is how God's love works. I so believe and loveit. I personally feel that the only resource God has provided without limit is LOVE.

[H.L. Cerveise]

Thank you for reading my poem and reviewing it.

[barleygirl]

This is imaginative & there's a definite flavor of your analytical background . . . it sounds a little like a formula more than the messy unpredictable reality of our true feelings about anything in life. I like to write in an analytical way, too. I like things straightforward, making sense, leading to a logical conclusion. You poem does all these things. And your examples are thought-provoking. But in the end, I'm afraid this doesn't really seem like love to me, becuz love isn't so easily parsed & packaged for our understanding. Lots of times it feels like pain and then turns into the best lesson we couldn't see the need for, before the crash. So, while I like your analysis of love & I love your writing & your imagination . . . I can't buy into this neat & orderly explanation *smile*

[Emily]

I really like how you started it!!
Keep on writing!!

[H.L. Cerveise]

Thank you for reading it. Glad you liked it.

[Hailey Juliet]

A great exploration of love! wonderfully composed and thought out, thank you for sharing:)

[H.L. Cerveise]

Thank you for reading and reviewing my writing. This was a writing that my mind and heart worked on for a while before I put it down in writing.

[Vatsal Rohilla (account..]

Very deep and engaging. Another lovely poem there. Keep writing.

[charlie]

I believe love is a force, yes. And I share your synergistic view on it, also.

Seems like some earnest rumination here, Cervaise. Thank you for sharing ... your orange :)