How Might One Know Love Except by Loving

February 10, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Valentine’s Day, which is celebrated on February 14.

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A Valentine’s Day poem about the need to love in order to know what love is:

How might one know love except by loving?

A crush is sometimes right, but often wrong,

Perhaps because it's short, and life is long,

Perhaps because the proof is in the pudding.

Years go by, and one is always moving;

Very little truth can come along.

A week, a month, a year – love still seems strong;

Longer, and the trick is one of choosing.

Enduring love depends on mutual need,

Need acknowledged, open, unashamed

To say, I do not want to be alone.

If one could put aside one's pride and bleed,

No gift of gratitude would go unnamed,

Even if the landscape turned to stone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Valentine’s Day

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