This is response to everyone’s vulnerable comments about my poem entitled Lovesick. I hope that you find some comfort in it dear friends.
Some version of brokenness has caused you to repeat a toxic cycle that resembles you disenfranchising yourself as worthy of love
That one relationship you first had with someone who broke or put your heart through a cheese grater made you feel like that’s how relationships are supposed to be and defined how you thought you were to be treated
So you kept on in life replicating those humilating symptoms each time a new relationship in any form appears begging for this to be something new but realizing it’s never going to be a fresh start
Because all along you needed to find what love looks like so far outside of your inner circle that you saw what love looked like from a distance
Because they say love looks a lot like pain but that pain should mean both people are willing to fight for that love
If one stops fighting for that love then you learn that lesson and move on which will make you a stronger person who knows how to love yourself and then effectively love others
Because some people have shown you what self hate looks like not true love
And that my dear friend is not what we want at all because hate is not the opposite of love but as they say it is the absence of it