Love · Love Dotes on Our Attention
We Say It Like We Mean It
A cornerstone of Positive Love Poetry: love as something we proactively invite, not passively mourn. Dave paints Love crouching at the starting line, waiting through arguments and distraction until we smile and beckon it forward with open arms.
The imagery is deliberately concrete. You can see the starting line, feel the patience, hear "I love you" repeated until love decides to stay. This is celebration and choice, not complaint.
After all is said and done,
Love gives us what’s fair-
sometimes we think it’s
being malicious or hurtful,
but our feeling only
comes from someone
being mean or ignoring
Love and its need
to have room to grow.
Love patiently crouches
at the starting line;
if we ignore it, and never
fire the gun, it waits.
If we argue with our lover,
it waits until we are done.
All that Love asks, is for
us to be proactive
and give Potential its due.
Love is tentative until
we smile and beckon,
“Come into my arms and
let me hug you tightly.”
Love labors under some
of the things that
we naturally expect:
distraction, vengeance,
sadness, nonchalance.
We stay focused, and we
learn to say “I love you”
until Love decides to stay.
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