If You Can... Part 2

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If you think real love is the crazy feelings you have on someone,

Then you are wrong

If you think real love is what makes you awake at night and gives you a sense of longing for someone,

Then you are infatuated with childish feelings

Yes, they are part of love but they are not real love.

 

Do you want to know what real love is? Seriously?

Then look at the sun and gaze at the moon.

 

From the sun we learn the beauty of illuminating love,

Does the sun ever reduce the amount of light that the earth deserves?

Or does it ever ask the earth to return the favor?

Look at a love like that;

It illumines the entire universe and prospers the earth.

 

From the moon we learn the beauty of reflecting love.

Does the moon ever distort the light for its own benefit?

Or does it ever deviate the light in its moment of playfulness?

Look at a love like that;

It gives beauty and splendor even to the dark face of the nights.

 

If you can love like the sun,

If you can love like the moon,

Then you can do miracles.

 

The dewdrops will bring you pearls from the ocean,

The mountains will ecstatically dance on your lead,

And the sun and the moon will take turn to bow to you. 

 

*Note: Jules Paige, an American-based poet, showered me with her real love last week. She wrote me a poem on my birthday when she didn’t actually know it was my birthday. She had been like a mentor to me  on my creative writing journey and even sent me postcards and candies all the way from East-Petersburg! I am enthralled and humbly thankful for the love she has given me. This poem is dedicated to Jules, while the title is written as suggested by Madeline who left me a beautiful note: “The sweetest spice of life is Love-tinged cinnamon poetry”