Only IF You…



I ask, what is love ?

I’m here to give you the love you need
I’m here to give you the love you haven’t received
I’m here to give you the love you may have dreamed
I’m here to give you the love you haven’t seen indeed

I’m here to love you the way you should be
I’m here to love you in ways you want to be
I’m here to love you like no other has
I’m here to love you the way your deserved to be

Only if you need me to
Only if you want me to
Only if you desire for it
Only if you believe in it

But I still do ask what is love?

About this poem

Well not sure what it reads to anyone!! But writing for those that like me maybe don’t really know what love is!! Or fear of it!! Fear to love, fear of being loved Being overwhelmed by loved, fear of commitment, fear of it being a dependency!! Well I think, if you haven’t loved, haven’t been loved, haven’t felt the pain then you won’t know what love really is!! I don’t…

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Written on March 16, 2023

Submitted by Maheshw on March 16, 2023

Modified on March 18, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A BXXB CCXC DDEE A
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 551
Words 126
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 1

Mahesh Wadhwani

I always apologize for the length of my text as that’s the best way for me to communicate rather than verbally!! Not a man of many words but still manage to doodle when in mood to write, which is rare!! I am not even sure if what I scribble is poetry or even what form or just words that rhyme!! To me writing is an art, a sign of creativity and a means of expression. I don't really think that anyone can just write without any feelings, without having felt, without having lived, experienced or cherished. Whatever one writes, there is some amount of a persons own feelings and presence or of those around them, indicated in the works. So I am thankful to all the people in my life and those yet to come for having given me life, love, happiness and even pain. At-least I have had the opportunity to feel it , live it and express it, whatever it maybe. Cheers! more…

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  • luisestable1
    This is a poem that does exchange: only if you. And then it asks if that would be love what is to be given which is an interesting questions for the giver would be in the position to judge his or her love and not to ask is it is such. Does not he or she not know his or her own feelings of mind or heart.
    Anyway, it is a good poem , and what I say is only my take as I read the poem. 
    LikeReply1 year ago
    • Maheshw
      Love to each is different
      No 2 people can love each the same or to the same extent
      There are bound to be differences
      At times people that love are questioned n challenged about their feelings of love n that raises doubt in one’s own feelings
      N maybe because both don’t share the same feelings or one wants more than the other can give or one is not feeling what they want to feel
      Tough to express in words really
      Love is a feeling..
       
      LikeReply1 year ago
    • Maheshw
      n Thank you for reading n responding!!
      LikeReply1 year ago

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