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By marisuewrites

Love That's Gone

When You Love Me



Let It Shine

Love, we all need it. Want it. Crave it.

Memories unlock the mind, or confine us with it's pain. Is there a love you lost along life's way? One who hurt you, brought you joy?

We've all lost a love, wanted a love we didn't get, loved too much, or not enough. Maybe your love is secret, deep inside, unfulfilled. Maybe you reach out to the space between you. Are you close, yet far away? Can they feel your touch, your yearning?

"What if," Does it fill your thoughts? Does your mind take you back, to the days that might have been, or are yet to be?

Are they just out of reach, but familiar. You sense it, feel it, wonder if it's returned?

Where has love, or the loss of it taken you? Can you feel what you want to feel? Are you surrounded by yesterday, or wanting tomorrow a bit too much?

Are you grounded, or wanting to take flight? Locked into today, thinking of your needs, fulfilling the needs of others...does it take your time?

Suddenly you stop. What are the days bringing you? Are you in love? Are you in habit? Is it the same? What might have been, if you turned left instead of right?

The darkness of maybe tickles us, the thickness of the night forces shallow breath, maybe in just moments. Moments that break thought, turns our head, makes us wonder in it's fleeting light of interruption.

Wondering if we're ok, if we are lonely, then ... are they? Are we OK? Do they think of us, what path did they take? Do they want us, would they speak?

No, do not be sad. You have this moment, you have now...and it is built on all the yesterdays.

But still, we wonder, we ache. To know...What is love, this binding emotion that blinds? What would take its place?

I love, deep and shallow, lasting and at a glance. I seek, I have, I want...are we all alike? All the same? Do others feel this wondering about love and time?

Attraction, to both known and unknown, it is for all of us, near and far, no matter the race, the color, the custom, love is -- sought....needed, wanted, and continues, throughout all time. Perhaps it is felt for all eternity and is the only thread, of connection. Perhaps.

To all loves, to all who want love, for all who need love in all it's forms, both physical and from the heart and every note in-between, it is our connection - it is our need, it is the rhythm of our life, the beat of our internal drum.

If it's lost for you, or yet to be, or in infancy; it is your destiny. Reach out - touch its face. Step into the space between love and emptiness, fill it with your need.

When He - She is gone, it is then back, in memory...

Are loves joined in dreams and thought; are attractions continuing throughout our life, bringing paths together, forever friends?

Rejoice, love lives.

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AC Gaughen profile image

AC Gaughen  says:
18 months ago

I think this is really beautiful. Well done!

G-Ma Johnson profile image

G-Ma Johnson  says:
18 months ago

well done as always my dear...this brought a quote to mind "Don't live in the past, don't dream of the future...but concentrate on the present" G-Ma :o) hugs

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

HI G-ma, this was a wondering middle of the night moment. LOL

Just to show people I am too, deep. and they thought I was just a giggle.....LOL

John Chancellor profile image

John Chancellor  says:
18 months ago

I think there is a contradiction in modern life.  We want instant gratification and we want lasting attachment - call it intimacy or love.  But our culture has conditioned us to seek things instantly.  Love or intimacy, by its very nature, requires time to fully develop.  Love means opening up to another.  We can't do that except gradually.  And we cannot accept someone who opens up to us except on a gradual basis. 

Often we think we are in love when in fact what we want is someone we can mold to fit our needs.  Love should never want the other person to conform to our goals/desires/needs.  Love should want to help each other develop to be the best they can be. 

We think we are in love, yet our love is selfish.  We want what we want.  Not what is necessairly best for our lover.  If we want love that grows, that never dies, then we must have a common purpose, that is to help each other develop to be the best possible person they can become. We should never let our personal desires hold back our lover from developing to be the best they can be. 

Test yourself.  Do you want what is best for your lover or what you want for yourself.  If we are honest, we will find that often we kill love by being selfish, by wanting what we want and not what is best for our lover.

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

Are you inside my head listening to my thoughts and probably every other readers'

You are very wise.

And Yes, that's why I started this hub...with my thoughts, and encouraging others to think and speak...

...as we all think about love, it causes more thoughts and questions...and is the search of all people throughout all time...

Thanks always John, for your input!!!

Constant Walker profile image

Constant Walker  says:
18 months ago

Beautiful, M. I don't usually get into poetry - I tend to nod off after a few lines - but this was great!

And John, you are, indeed, wise.

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

When I began to think of this...the thoughts just flowed on paper.  I thought of the hubs I'd read on love and it's journey.  Those who'd lost someone to death, expected and unexpected, those who had to end a love that was not connecting, those who wanted someone who didn't know, those who wanted someone who said no....all of it...came to my mind and formed this piece....and I had no idea it would end up like a poem, but I guess it did.  It just flowed out from the thoughts of many here....and in my own life.  

I'm glad you stayed awake...LOL

I am  after all....most often a giggle.   Marisue

Constant Walker profile image

Constant Walker  says:
18 months ago

Usually... sometimes just lost!

Zsuzsy Bee profile image

Zsuzsy Bee  says:
18 months ago

Marisue! Good one. Very insightful hub. I just love it when the "pen" ('puter in this case) seems to take a life of it's own.

regards Zsuzsy

Lifebydesign profile image

Lifebydesign  says:
18 months ago

oh those late night ponderings..you do 'ponder' well Marisue!

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

The Darkness brings out the boogey men./people/person. to be politically correct. thanks for your comments....!! Marisue

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

Zsuz andLife, You guys are great...thanks for being there at each of my hubs, it warms my heart.!!! had to come back and say that....I love all you readers/writers and try to return the favor by reading yours as well...you are keeping me busy!! =)

Eileen Hughes profile image

Eileen Hughes  says:
18 months ago

Keep on writing at night if this is what you come up with each time great hub.

Good comments in here too. I think the others have said it all.

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marisuewrites  says:
18 months ago

thank you Eileen!! the hubbers on here inspired me with what was going on in their life and of course my own...we all stem from our experiences...

Thanks for reading!!

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marisuewrites  says:
17 months ago

New video, will make you cry a little, if you think about the one you love...

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