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What Does Love Look Like?

January 15, 2013
By n0stalgic BRONZE, Portland, Oregon
n0stalgic BRONZE, Portland, Oregon
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Favorite Quote:
"You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."


What does love look like?

It looks like a newborn baby, seeing the world for the first time.

It looks like a young girl playing with her dolls, her eyes shining bright with joy.

It looks like a teenage boy, smothering his girlfriend with kisses.

It looks like a couple getting married, uniting their lives forever.

It looks like a fragile old man, crying at his wife's funeral.

It looks like two tombstones, side by side, forever.

It looks like love.


The author's comments:
I was inspired to write this piece because I met a man one day at the store who was buying flowers. He told me that it was for his wife, and that she was dead. He told me that he knew that she would still love them, because it 'looked like love'. After that, this poem was written.

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