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Love is Not Math

Love is Not Math

by ~DashingAmerican, Jul 16, 2012, 3:11:27 PM
Literature / Poetry / General Poetry / Urban & Spoken Word

If love is really forever
then how many people know
what love is?

In fact, how many people know
what forever is?

So, I pray to a god
that lives above the sky
for the answers, I don't know why.
I've never heard him say a word
but maybe it's not something to be heard.

But love is not like math
because 1+1 can never equal five
and five is the number I cherish.

Five tiny mouths to feed.
Five pairs of grasping hands.
Five growing minds to mold.
Five heads to keep groomed.
Five college funds to fund.

So, love must last forever.
Why else would anyone
go through such hell?
~JLE~

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Self PortraitI am the keeper of thoughts.
I remember all the things
And all the in betweens.
I am the galaxies and stars
And I hold all the copies.
Copies of you and me.

I am the skin that held us together
And I am the bones that gave us structure.
I am the veins that carried our life
And I am the knife that released our pain.
I am the hurt that flows freely forth
And I am the scars that hide our path.

I am the grass that rebirths in spring
And I am the dirt that houses worms.
I am the land ripe for the plow
And the seed that hides in the ground.
I am the food that the earth provides
And the crops that you never harvested.

~JLE~Self Portrait by ~DashingAmerican

Seeing GodIf loving another person is seeing
the face of God
then God has big round eyes.
Eyes that give reason
for the weeping of willows.
Eyes that sap strength
from the courageous men.

The face of God must have
round cheeks
where tears must cascade like
rivers down a mountain
where the desires of men are
born to die.

And the face of God has
soft lips.
Lips that give the
breath of life
and lips that take
breath away.

~JLE~Seeing God by ~DashingAmerican

IIIHurt doesn't flow like ink.
It lays like bricks to a wall.

So brick by brick I lie my problems
like sinners always lie to God.

After the fleeting moment you spend
fording the sorrow of what was
or could be you realize all that's
left is your new prison and the warden.

And the warden is less friendly than I.

And you know, they always told me

that the walls you build to keep out
the sadness also keeps out the joy

And if you're lucky and found
worthy love will take pity.

And one night as you sleep in despair
She will come to you like Dorothy's
tornado and rattle your foundation.

~JLE~III by ~DashingAmerican

Fear: revisitedMy fears lack physicality.
Even lack pain.
In a sense.

Alzheimer's:

A hammer pounding on a sponge
as fluid flows from it like
responsibility from a teenage body.

Cancer:

Cancer, murderer of grandfathers.
Patriarchs to different worlds.
One, a servant to God who spent his life
on a wooden pew and bent knee and was
thanked for his time with a
cancer ridden body.

The other, a Vietnam vet who knew
things he never shared; things he
hid in the bottle. Things he hid
in the bottle for 68 years.

Loneliness:

The spitter spatter of the heart
when you see the person you love
with eyes full of longing and passion
looking at someFear: revisited by ~DashingAmerican

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by ~DashingAmerican, Dec 6, 2012, 10:37:20 PM
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So, saw an "ex" fucking in a parking lot. Didn't know whether to be sad, angry, or disappointed. Turns out I was all three. Suhweet.

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