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Lover's Leap
The way things were, who could imagine
us getting together?
And falling in love, dying in love,
with chaos
all around.
One could only imagine how hard finding
love
would be in those circumstances.
Yet, if you look at it this way,
how could we not?
We lived up to the cliché, even for our
day and age, surprisingly.
But who said finding love was hard?
Quite, in my opinion, because you don’t
find love
love finds you.
It jumps out at you in the middle
of that tough path we all walk called
life.
It shakes you silly, knocking some
sense into you,
but also it knocks some sense out of
you.
It makes you forget anything important,
planting
the image of only your lover in your
head,
never being able to rid yourself of it.
Then slapping you across the face,
cursing you for not attaining your
lover.
Yes, love is a cruel punishment so many
of us desire foolishly.
What’s not to desire?
A feeling of hope, serenity, a clam
breeze
slightly caressing our cheeks as we
look out to the lands beyond, hopeful
as ever.
But also a strict tutor slapping our
palms every time
we are incorrect in our actions or say
the wrong thing.
A disciplinarian that doesn’t know a
pupil that doesn’t
live up to expectations, all of which
are extremely high.
A harsh sea wave, unmerciful and
unwilling
to make this easy.
Nobody said love was easy.
And it wasn’t for us, it was quite
difficult
simply to see each other,
much less love each other.
The natural order of things told us to
hate each other,
but our hearts told us to go for it
and we did, thankfully.
Oh how we were such fools! loving so
hopefully,
so young-like, thinking we had a
chance.
Thinking the seal of a kiss could solve
everything,
thinking the dutiful act of marriage
bound ourselves together,
when we were never meant to be bound on
Earth.
Because, you see, our love couldn’t
solve everything at the time,
it had to be complete in that great
world beyond to solve anything.
It did, and I don’t regret it, not for
a second.
We changed everything for the better in
a way most fitting,
and we finally ended up together, if
not on earth.
They may never see out love in the act
ever again,
but the passion and fiery soul of our
love
lives on in them all, coming back to
haunt them and changing
their actions almost entirely.
They now give love a chance, like they
never did to us,
and all it took was two lovers,
leaping into an experience like no
other,
being tested and tried,
and ending up together in the end,
hand-clasped, lips sealed, making a
stand against them all
in one final leap.
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