Someone to love

You have to have someone to love,
or life would be completely without meaning.
That is obvious, of course, but having someone
as your love has many meanings.
It's not just loving, but it means an intimate,
someone that you can always trust,
someone who understands you
and who shares your deepest darkness
and despair as well as your delight.
It's more a family relationship
like between sister and a brother,
while the sexual detail actually has less significance
than loyalty and faith and trust and understanding.
If you have someone like that to love
you really are most fortunate,
and all that you should do and need to
is to simply stick to it and never let it go.




Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2016-11-05 at 16:41

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A beautiful write. I like it. Some advice though, intimacy instead of intimate and familial instead of family might make the poem flow better. Of course, it's your poem just thought I'd put my two cents in. I especially loved the alliteration in lines 8 and 9 the resounding chorus of d in deepest darkness delight and despair. Really revved the poem up a notch. Bravo.
2016-11-22



if you are fortunate to find. such love and know how to keep it, you are a fortunate person. Lovely description of true love.
Ashe
2016-11-06