The Two Faces of Love

The Two Faces of Love

How can love be at once something so powerful in that you would do anything to keep it when you have it but also do anything to get rid of it once it is lost.
When in love it is impossible to ever picture yourself outside of it as nothing could break such a powerful emotion, yet when your love is gone it is impossible to see yourself ever in it again, how could anything ever break such a powerful emotion?

Love is something that once sampled you could never deny its existence for love fills you up in a way that can never be forgotten, you remember all the good times, all the little things that on their own are trivial and would other wise pass by unnoticed. Like looking in to their eyes is something I will never forget, it is a feeling unmatched by any; to gaze upon someone with love and see it unequivocally returned

Yet once lost it can push you to the point of wishing you would never have experienced it, all those little things serve as a weight that try’s its best to drown you, those eyes come back to mock you, those moments that mean so much to you still, will also serve as a reminder of what is lost.

You find yourself wishing to never be in love again as the pain it brings is almost to much to carry, yet you would give anything to return to it as it is so fulfilling that life without it seems hollow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson's wrote “I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” I honestly don’t know if I agree or disagree. To be able to say and mean this I think you have to be either completely in love or completely out of love as I  don’t believe anyone who has love that is not returned could think this.

I often ask myself if I would have been better off never having experienced love, again I can’t truthfully answer one way or the other. At times there is nothing I would swap those experiences for or long to have them again, yet there are times when I wish it had never touched me as  love also causes such great pain.

If somebody were to ask me now if they should avoid love or seek it, I would have to tell them to never rest until they have found it as there is nothing more wonderful or powerful in this world than unconditional love. But for me I hope to never again be touched by something so painful and powerful, once is enough for anybody to endure.

Luke Golt
29-02-08