Love Told Me

We are all slaves of love, when we feel the strength and power of these feelings. They say people in love do stupid things - I partially agree. People in love are strong and weak at the same time. These feelings command us. The advise us, take control of us, and we obey them diligently. Love, personified in this poem, is our leader, who commands us to continue to care and to stay after painful things have happened. We may seem stupid, but that is the strength of our love, of our feelings. We do it because Love told us.

Love Told Me:

I didn’t plan on anything

From the moment I stepped into your vicinity,

But it happened – in a moment

A hope for affinity.

And when I saw what I thought

Was a sign we are alike,

Love told me to care about you,

And a passion burned in my psyche.

The first time I thought

You could never reciprocate,

Love told me to seek out the gods

And my prayers in them invocate.

When I sat there denying

I had any real feelings,

Love lucidly commanded

I trust in its proceedings.

I heard its voice –

Clear, firm, irrefutable,

And it made me trust in Love

And hope for the impossible.

When I was rejected

And nursing heart’s wound,

Love patched it up

With feelings of a stronger tune.

When friends advised me

To let go and move on,

Love said I can’t and

My heart became a weeping swan.

When I was told my feelings

Would fade away into nothingness,

Love surprised me by revealing

Its strength in infiniteness.

And when I doubt and I fear

That this may not be love,

Love reassured me

Of what it was made of.

Love taught me that

The heart is not a fickle thing

When it comes to the one

For whom with love it will sing.

Love told me it is titanium –

No, it is a diamond shield

Around my heart within which

Its ocean of feelings are sealed.

And when all fate seemed

Against me, Love gave

A nonexistent sliver of hope

To which I became a slave.

When it became clear

That for now I won’t succeed,

I decided to wait

Because Love told me.