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Another poem about love

Love how can I describe you?
Poets endlessly found a piece of you

I’m one of a million blind mice 
You are a colossal elephant
I feel you but do not know you
Let me measure every inch of you

Love is letting go of what I know
Letting a scar be the new normal
Letting the baby go to adolescence
Letting the roots sink deep to see the bud 

Love is embracing what’s present
Watching the scab do its work
Watching without waiting for growth
Watching a bud unfurl to a blossom

Love doesn’t believe in the future
Reveling in closure, it doesn't ask what's next
Reveling growth, three in one come together
Reveling winter once crimson and gold

Love doesn't know the meaning of harm
It doesn’t create scars willingly
Nor baggage for others to carry
Nor believes in conceal and carry

Love sometimes harms oneself
It protects those it loves without arms
It protects even if it self-hates
Like a mother sheltering loved ones

Love patiently waits for love to return
It waits for new cuts with patience
It hopes for blocked numbers to be released
Welcomes seeds of its grandchildren

Love will kill your ego if you let it
Bringing death to your selfish folly
Letting the dagger enter your breast
Love will hold your hand while you let go

Love is acceptance of your flaws
Embracing the cancer in your soul
Knowing our children are not ours
It sees the best of you like a newborn

Love bears all things great and small
Love believes what you cannot embrace
Love hopes that in time you'll hope too
Love endures every measurement 

Love is not unconditional
It needs air and a body to inhabit
Love nails itself on the cross
Love knows when it's supper

When the elephant offers some cheese
Let's hope the mice see love wholely

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

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Hilda Greenhough

Date: 4/27/2024 10:53:00 PM

I enjoyed this savory poem. It open great vistas of the nature of love.

Triny Xiang
Date: 4/28/2024 7:29:00 PM

Thank you, Hilda. I'm glad my poor excuse for a feast for guests went down easy. I'm just one mouse the elephant of love crowded with other rodents like me.

Vijay Pandit

Date: 4/27/2024 4:25:00 AM

Much depth you convey in this ode to love--describing its attributes so very beautifully. It is a one of a kind emotion that lives through us--we make it what we want it to be. Well written, Triny!

Triny Xiang
Date: 4/27/2024 7:52:00 PM

Thank you, Vijay. I thought I would write about an impossible topic. I failed miserably in my estimation, but I hope I placed my jagged, colored stone into an endless mosaic.

Silent One

Date: 4/24/2024 10:02:00 AM

This is a profound journey through the intricacies of love, painting a vivid picture of its essence through rich metaphors and heartfelt insights. The analogy of 'seven blind mice' facing the 'colossal elephant' of love encapsulates the overwhelming and mysterious nature of this emotion, emphasizing both its presence and elusiveness. The progression from 'letting go' to 'embracing what's present' beautifully captures the transformative power of love, highlighting its ability to heal wounds and foster growth.

Triny Xiang
Date: 4/24/2024 10:31:00 PM

I am humbled by your reply. I decided to take a bite of the big cheese that is love. I knew I would fail miserably, but it helped me to think about the force that earth and the universe revolve around. My thanks is not enough.

Ink Empress

Date: 4/24/2024 12:51:00 AM

How profound and well woven this is dearest, you have a way with describing things and giving every emotion or feeling one shared between hearts a whole new level of definition, to enlighten those that may not be aware that love is selfless and patience, i really also felt the lines “ Love patiently waits for love to return It waits for new cuts with patience It hopes for blocked numbers to be released Welcomes seeds of its grandchildren” so powerful yet soft and delicately delivered!

Triny Xiang
Date: 4/24/2024 10:37:00 PM

Dearest Ink-E, thank you so much. Being a father has taught me about love and the impossible task of reaching to end of love like Zeno's paradox. I think love is a gardner not an axeman. I think letting go ego is a start and ends in an embrace even if it is with oneself.