love.
what is love?
is it a placebic feeling
that one gets when
they smile thinking about him?
is it the feeling one gets
when he’s trapped in your mind 24/7?
is it the headache you get from
being so in love that you forget?
forget about everything around you?
forget about yourself?
it’s like you get lost in this kind of parallel universe
that revolves around only you and him
and all the fantasies become real.
your imagination soon becomes reality,
but only for a moment
until you come back to the realization
that it was all in your head,
that you’ll never get a chance
because he was never real.
love.
what is it exactly?
explanation:
For this poem, I challenged myself to think of a word and just write about it without stopping until I finish. For the most part, this poem is unedited and each line is the first thing that came into my mind as I was writing. The lines, “it’s like you get lost in this kind of parallel universe…your imagination soon becomes reality,” describe how when you’re so in love, you tend to forget about everything around you and get lost in a sensational feeling. The lines, “ that you’ll never get a chance because he was never real,” mean that the person you think of in your head is different from who they actually are. We create a version of them that we feel is ideal but it isn’t actually them in reality, most of the time. I chose love as the topic of my poem because sometimes, the concept of it can be confusing to understand, which is why I referred to it as a “placebic feeling,” because is it just something you want and force yourself to feel? Or is it a genuine feeling someone gets because of a certain someone?
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