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Feels Good, Man

July 31, 2018
By mhkhan BRONZE, Islamabad, Other
mhkhan BRONZE, Islamabad, Other
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Favorite Quote:
“I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.”<br /> ― Jack Kerouac


I'm not in love
all the time
because
if I were,
I'd either fall out of it
eventually,

but

when I'm just feeling
the happiness of love, 
most days are good
in the beginning, 
but
there comes a point when
I forget I'm in love,
and I forget I am that man with
the burning heart, and the burning soul,
but then I listen to love songs at
11pm in my car with the windows rolled down,
I look at the sunrise or the sunset,
I read the love poetry of Pablo Neruda
(only the happy love poems),
I sit silently in a room full of people
and watch them laugh, and I, too, laugh,
I watch her eyes as if they're about to 
tell me everything I need to know, 
I sit next to her in the most comfortable silence
I have ever experienced,

and it all comes back to me
every single time,
and I close my eyes,
knowing 
the love is there again
as if it never left

and it's a good feeling, 
I tell you.


The author's comments:

The piece itself does all the talking.


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on Aug. 3 2018 at 3:03 pm
mhkhanisawesome, Islamabad, Other
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Loving how this piece suggests a sad undertone but is outwardly so optimistic!