Loves War

Every time that we fall in love it is a gamble or a risk that all must take never knowing if it is a true love or just a reasonable facsimile that contains almost every piece and facet of what true love is really supposed to be. Love is what makes humans who and what we truly are and where we are going in this life. Even though love is only just a four letter word it is very complex one. It can mean so many things to so many people I think it has gotten lost over translation and time love is not word that you throw out there because we have all been conditioned to repeat back as if we were parrots doing a trick, For example there are so many different types, and meanings a whole lot of feelings which continuously reeling like The love between to star cross lovers, between a mother and her son, between a brother and sister, don't forget the one between a dog and his master, even my love of early morning warm spring baseball game a hot dog and beer with all four of my sons and always remember what Pat Benatar says "Love is a battlefield"

Loves war

Goodnight sweetheart I hope that you sleep well

and when you finally close your eyes and start to dream

tonight it is one of the sandy white beaches and clear

warm waters that are as blue and bright as the

sparkles the once lit up your big beautiful eyes. I also

want you to know that I will always remember that day

just like it was only yesterday when we kissed, like there

was nobody else who was around, when I first asked

you for permission and without any kind pause or

hesitation you looked deeply into my eyes and said yes oh

yes, then at that very moment of time and all of it's

many moments you and I realized that we were so

petrified while paralyzed with love that it kinda scared

you and I but that did not stop us from walking down the

aisle listening to the sounds our wedding bells ringing in our

ears. But here were are today both injured with lies of the

bedroom kind marked with scratches and scared by the

many wounds from the battles we have fought

year after year of where we have been, and what we have

heard or seen while trying so hard to find out just who

it is that we both are, just like two combat soldiers from

different sides coming home from a brutal bloody war,

neither side a winner, beaten down by each other and

bruised from fighting what is called "loves war."

I have always felt it in my heart and deep down inside

of my soul how much that I loved, just as I know

that you have also in your way loved me, but it has

always been at different times than I was or in two

separate places and that my dear is the one thing I know

that we both can always agree. It is so blatantly

obvious to everyone around that we have always for some

unknown reason loved to hate each other, despite how

many times we have come back together and now we

even hate to love one another, as we just go back

and forth like two fighters who are locked away in a cage

while going round after round both being pounded

by a love that is blind. So let us both throw up the

white flag together then call a truce and not go on any

further and declare that this "loves war," is now over, walk

away from each other while we are still able to even

walk anywhere at all, let us declare that we have

actually come to the final realization that no matter how

much replication with ongoing dedication to the

night time mediation with no retaliation that our two

sides our souls and hearts will never again get along.

and when all of the smoke has finally cleared with the

last, of the words, are never heard, I just want you to

know and try very hard to understand that I am not

angry about who started it what or why it was done or

even how, for I will always remember without a doubt

that evening when me and you heard all of the thunder

roar deep inside of us then saw the lighting and fireworks

that came from unknown places deep down in our souls,

from that very first kiss to the last one that we shall

forevermore ever know.

Richard M Knittle Jr.

A #Poets Journey