Loves epiphany

I loved once yet not since

I knew the emotion of truth and devastation

to feel it is to be complete and whole in a world so confusing

for a feeling so warm and complex it's a true miracle it can splinter across so many realms

touching the heavens yet keeping me here on earth, with you I felt it

Love

in and all around it consumes me fill me with hope and chases away the hate

but with it comes a price

because to lose love leaves you feeling empty, you feel forgotten and unwanted

cast aside like a empty shell, in such a short time you were flying with angel

yet in even shorter distance you are meek and alone

love can be the greatest, it can have you soaring on cloud nine

you would do anything for it just to feel it one more time

a sense of eternal desperation just to have that one person make you feel whole once more.

to love is to live and  to lose it is to survive

we feel like nothing, but the truth is we are but lost amonxed the depths of sorrows envy

clasping at hopes and dreams trying to relive what we once felt like bubbles under skin an addiction of attraction, lust, and giddiness.

true love is not that cloudy feeling that makes you weep when she's away

but that voice in your head that tells you to make her breakfast, after she sold your xbox, ran over your mom's dog and sold years worth of baseball cards that you have been collecting since you were 5 and decide not to murder her in cold blood.

that's love

love is when you would do anything just for her to look at you and smile, because you know at that very moment you belong.

love is a journey at some point we all must take whether short or forever time slows around us and seconds become years yet every time when it ends we wish we could experience it longer

we try to understand it yet we find the longer we think about it the more complex it becomes, and we find ourselves dazzled by it's infinancy because it's truth eludes us like some new toy we never really master

only we are the toy, and to it we are nothing more than pieces in a board game

love

(contest piece)