Erosion.
Love doesn’t just stop loving
Love is eroded by the constant drip, drip, drip.
The drip of neglect
The drip of withdrawal
The drip of rejection
Love holds on for as long as it can
Hoping and praying for it’s own survival
Love will never abandon itself
Love will just fall
Into introspection
That is when love
Forgets
To
Come
Back
Leaving in search
Of another’s affection.
~Clare Kinnaird. 2024.
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Graham Sherwood
Sun 21st Jul 2024 21:32
I love (sorry for the pun) the idea of love as an entity that finds another mate if rebuffed or is abandoned. I hadn’t thought of it that way. I’d assumed it more organic