Luisa Herrmann Poet Narrative

What Love Doesn'T Know

Love doesn’t know limits
Love doesn’t understand history 
Nor cares.

Love doesn’t understand structure
Or patterns.
Love doesn’t comprehend fire
Or how the brighter it burns
The faster it fades.

Love doesn’t know
How much it’s absence hurts
Once you’ve tasted it
You’re gone.

And love doesn’t know
How inconvenient it is
That you are beside me

Hardly noticing my craving for you
Hardly seeing my fingers twitching
Yearning to entrap themselves in your hair
Hardly hearing my deep breathing 
Trying to get myself under my own control.

No, love doesn’t know how annoying it can be. 
But you’re right here beside me
And the light is hitting me just right
And your eyes are shifting towards my lips
So why not?

God, this is gonna hurt.

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