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Italian Wisdom
by Amanda J CobbThere is an old Italian saying:
Love is just love.
Maybe that's just in Italy.
For if love is just love,
how do you explain
love that fades with time
or love that changes into
a different, if not lesser, feeling?
And how do you account for
love that goes unreturned
or love that is ignored
or must be?
If love is just love,
how do you know
love for a friend from
love for a lover?
If love is just love,
then why do I feel so torn?
Maybe I should live in Italy. 01/18/2002 Posted on 01/18/2002
Copyright © 2024 Amanda J Cobb
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Philip F De Pinto on 10/24/02 at 02:07 PM Was it not Shakespeare that said that love is not love when it alteration finds or bends with the remover to remove: Oh no! it is an ever fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken:
it is the star to every wandering bark, whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. Love is not time's fool but bears it out even to the edge of doom. So perhaps it is not love we experience but an appaling and disappointing substiture. Nevertheless, this is a wonderful and thought provoking work Amanda. |
| Posted by Max Bouillet on 09/10/03 at 06:06 PM Is love that is unwanted and unreturned considered stalking? Would you love someone that did not love you back? Immortal questions that haunt humanity's soul. Great verse. |
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