What love means to me.

[sogoie]

I hope you like it please read it and reply to me.

What love, as in relationships with girls, means to me right now.
Love is everywhere but, where I can find it.
Love is so close, but yet so far away.
Love is an impostor, a trick, a lie, and liar.
Love is an ambush, you must suppress it to get out alive or else it will destroy you.
Love is an illness you must attack it to stay well.
Love is a trap you must keep away from it to not get caught.
Love is painful and difficult
Love is unreliable.
Love guided me to a bright room with many possibilities and left me alone in the dark
Love is not a song, it doesn't last long or leave on a good note.
Love is sure, sure that it doesn't love me.
Thats how I feel about love.

[Sumaya]

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And the profound message is...?

[B-Mental]

very expressive, I like it but I feel like you might have held back a bit to me.

Love is a sponge filling itself from my passion, it swells to twice its size...but to me is merely damp

[Laindessiel]

Love is everywhere but, where I can find it.
Love is so close, but yet so far away.
Love is an impostor, a trick, a lie, and liar.
Love is an ambush, you must suppress it to get out alive or else it will destroy you.
Love is an illness you must attack it to stay well.
Love is a trap you must keep away from it to not get caught.
Love is painful and difficult
Love is unreliable.
Love guided me to a bright room with many possibilities and left me alone in the dark
Love is not a song, it doesn't last long or leave on a good note.
Love is sure, sure that it doesn't love me.
Thats how I feel about love.

That is how you feel about Love? Has your heart gone through mishaps? If that's how you percieve the matter, it's too negative for me, really depressing, but I can't do anything if those are your emotions.


Love is a trap you must keep away from it to not get caught.
Love guided me to a bright room with many possibilities and left me alone in the dark
Love is not a song, it doesn't last long or leave on a good note.
Love is sure, sure that it doesn't love me.

Huh? Really disturbing. Haunted, I must say. Love loves everyone and everything, man! You've got to realize that. :)


Love is everywhere but, where I can find it.

I think what you meant with this line was Love is everywhere, but where, I can't find it. Is it? Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Cheer up Sogoie! http://www.cosgan.de/images/smilie/liebe/a015.gif Love is everywhere! :)

[brainstrain]

Love is everywhere, but if you recently lost someone you loved more than anything else, that can be impossible to see for a while.

This might've been ranting, though, and sogoie will never come back again heh. Thats what I was doing when i first joined LitNet last year.

Do try to cheer up though, theres more to life than love. try joy, or contentment, or satisfaction (of a job well done).

[sogoie]

i know what you mean, a moral victory

[Vada Dagon]

Hello Sogoie,

I'm sorry to say that I didn't like your poem. However, from the poem it has to be that you are young or feel you have lost much and perhaps it is both.

However, I can't help but feel that what you are describing is not love but lust or maybe something else.

Don't give up on poetry or love your poem is not bad.

[Adolescent09]

I think the subject matter of love is too cliche nowadays to even write poetry pertaining to it. I try to stay as far away from the subject of love as possible so as to keep from the "cliche trap". But of course now and again it is ok. I actually enjoyed your perception of love :).

[white camellia]

i know what you mean, a moral victory.

A moral victory, or the benefit of wisdom.

Love could be magnanimous. It's bigger than the self.

Subject matter of love is not new-not many subjects are absolutely new since there is one thing we call history. But the manner of contructing it could be new to some extent.

[JBI]

No offense, but you could easily go on without all the "Love Is", just use commas. and say love is at the beginning.

[Adolescent09]

A moral victory, or the benefit of wisdom.

Love could be magnanimous. It's bigger than the self.

Subject matter of love is not new-not many subjects are absolutely new since there is one thing we call history. But the manner of contructing it could be new to some extent.

I dont have a dictionary with me but doesn't magnanimous mean generous and noble? Or noble in a generous way. Do you mean love can be generous? And if you do, what do you mean exactly? I agree with your thoughts on subject matter though

[sogoie]

I hope you like it please read it and reply to me.

What love, as in relationships with girls, means to me right now.
Love is everywhere but, where I can find it.
Love is so close, but yet so far away.
Love is an impostor, a trick, a lie, and liar.
Love is an ambush, you must suppress it to get out alive or else it will destroy you.
Love is an illness you must attack it to stay well.
Love is a trap you must keep away from it to not get caught.
Love is painful and difficult
Love is unreliable.
Love guided me to a bright room with many possibilities and left me alone in the dark
Love is not a song, it doesn't last long or leave on a good note.
Love is sure, sure that it doesn't love me.
Thats how I feel about love.

Wow, this is still post here after 4 years. It's a shame that I still don't know what it's like to have a girlfriend. However, I have really good friends and a family that really love me. I'm not poet by any stretch of imagination. I was only venting to see what other people might say. The whole love thing still bugs me though, it just doesn't hurt like it used to.
All of the comments were really helpful. This was not any serious shot at becoming a poet. I just had to let it all out. I figured why not on a poetry forum. After all poetry is about emotion, philosophy, perspective, and morals after all right... I could be wrong but it doesn't matter.

Looking back at this reminds me of how I used to feel. Maybe because I'm at an all time low, I decided to look back, IDK. Since my post 4 yrs ago I have met many women, old childhood friends, classmates, part-time models, a hometown celebrity, and a lady from Indonesia. None of those relationships became official by any stretch of imagination. I don't really get what I could be doing wrong. Still trying to figure that out. I mean, I'm a really good guy, but not perfect. I realize I don't have it all, but I figured I have enough to offer to get a girlfriend. Again, IDK, maybe in time I will become a better man. Who said I had to get married and have kids anyway?! Hushing that voice in my head would take a load of pressure off. What I'm afraid of is doing the same thing, going down the same path, and being stuck right where I am 4-5 to 10 years later without anything to show for it! I've tried several different methods to reach out to girls I'm interested in. Here I am again 4 years later, STUCK. Exactly what I feared the most. Love is like one of those video games that all your friends can beat, but you can't get passed at first level.

I've been accused of being too deep, untrustworthy, and even a Facebook stalker. Prior to the ex-communication they all said I was polite, nice, and wise. I never hurt any of them, I only intended on being their best friend. Obviously these people don't even talk to me any more. I feel more like a victim than a villian. I feel like they all played me like sheet music, while I kept turning the page of forgiveness for them. This unrequited love, unwarranted guilt, and maybe insecurity has left an impact on my life. I'm trying not to cave it. I'm trying to put one foot infront of the other. Maybe this isn't my time. Meaning, I should wait until women reach out to me. Missed connections and mixed signals could be indicating the wrong things. Maybe I should wait for clear genuine indicators that they are ready and not just playing around. Maybe I haven't suffered enough. Honestly, I still don't get it.

[Delta40]

How nice for you to see how far you have come in four years! why not pen a poem about that for us all?

[sogoie]

bump back to the top of the thread.

[PrinceMyshkin]

My advice would be to let go as much as you can of this search for love. People can often detect when someone is desperate and it is more likely to make them shy away from you than come toward you. Put more energy into the activities or subjects that are within your reach. As much as you can, make them the objects of your passion and you might then have more to offer a potential lover - who, in any case, you should approach, initially, as a possible friend.

[sogoie]

BUMP

This is Sogoie once again, with a 5 year update. I've been all around the world enjoying my bachelor life, but i live in the same city since 2006. It took me to leave the country before I could get laid. I still have not had any girlfriends in the last 10 years since I wrote the original poem. I still can not catch any breaks. Ironically, I am back because after travelling the world, I fell for the girl next door. She doesn't like me an I found out she has a boyfriend today she never told me about. Things can't get much worse and I am at a low point once again. Honestly, nothing has changed since I wrote my poem in late 2006, updated it in 2010, and now in 2015. I'm planning to pack my bags and leave this country because I don't feel welcome here. I would like to see the statistics of people who leave this country too, but it is not recorded. I don't think I'm the first or shall be the last person to do this though.

I think about professional basketball players like Steve Bardo, who couldn't get much play time (1 min w/Atlanta Hawks) here in the US so he played in France, Italy, Japan, Spain, Venezuela. I'm also very disappointed in the women I grew up with in church, because they were supposed to follow a code of conduct like, no sex before marriage, but did not as well as many other things. So I became like an outcast following a noble code, which is like trying to speak Latin and no one else speaks Latin because its a dead language. I decided to follow a new code and stop going to church. I gave up on God and religion because I have lost all hope. I can't justify spending so much time praying, hoping, and believing and still be STUCK in the same place for nearly 10 years later. I'm all about empowering myself with technology and educate people like me in the world.

Whenever I leave the country I feel like I'm not STUCK any more. Writing on this forum also has helped me let go the negative emotions so they're not trapped inside my own head. I also have a exit strategy to leave this country so the current American women are either going to have to get on board or get left behind. The way I see it is, if I've done enough to empower myself and move out of this country then there is no more room for improvement that I need to do. American women have not changed the way they treat me since I wrote this in 2006. I can only imagine that there is a woman who lives in Costa Rica that would have fell in love with me back in 2006, 2010, and even today in 2015. In America however, nothing has changed since 2006 and I don't foresee things just changing all of a sudden or in the near future. In theory, I just need to leave America and move to Costa Rica. Compared to what I've been through, that's a lot easier than trying to find an American girlfriend. On my trips, I have learned that I don't have any problems relating to people with different languages and cultures. Even if I don't get married, at least prostitution is legal in most parts of the world except in America.

[sogoie]

Well, throwing money at the problem didn't work. I'm going to give this another shot..

[tailor STATELY]

Best wishes and keep up with the poetry.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY