What is the obsession?
What is the need?
What is love?!?!

Is it the drunken fool leering over you in a bar, his alcoholic breath reeking of sleaze?
Is it the wolf whistles from the womanizing group of apparent ‘men’ at a construction site?

We are told LOVE is blind, but what can’t it see?

Does it see the pain in missing a friend, or the stresses and fears in a relationship on the mend?
Does it know the affect it has in our lives, to mold us and shape us and give us something to thrive?

If LOVE is blind, could LOVE be deaf too?

Can it hear the cries and screams in the middle of night, of a broken down marriage where the mum and dad fight?
Can it hear the girl cry as her life is now lost, giving her love away, not knowing the cost?

Blind and deaf, but can LOVE speak?

Do the words “I love you” still have the same meaning, or is it being abused by the unlearned teen?
Does anyone realize the affect those three little words bear, or is it simply the truth that no one cares?

Useless and Painful, so what is LOVE’s purpose?

One day we’ll realize that love has no point, that all it sets out to do is disappoint.
One day things will change, when we’ll wake up to the truth, that Love is only ‘fun’ in our youth.

The alcoholic sleaze is not love, but instead a lost man searching for meaning in his life.
The apparent ‘men’ are not love, but instead lust, which is what drives man to do stupid things.

I don’t understand the obsession
I don’t know the need
But I do know Love,
And from it I am freed.

G Brown 2002

This poem was written for a school assignment, I kept it because I liked it, it's not the usual kind of Love poem that you read. My teacher tried to get me to edit some of this, and thats when I started getting frustrated with poetry. Surely poems are written from your heart to convey your feelings, not the feelings of your teacher? Well, needless to say i changed it back to how I liked it.