The Lit’ry Life 2015: Poetry by Dick Greene

August 20, 2015

About Love

What? What is IT about love?

To fall in IT is beyond Joy.

To fall in IT isn’t easy and IT isn’t easy to explain exactly what IT is.

What is IT? How does IT happen? Two people meet. IT doesn’t matter who, or where, or why!

If sparks fly, that’s IT!

So, IT happens. They’re in love. Their hearts beat the band. They can’t think of anything else. IT’s overwhelming … and so IT goes.

Then one day, one of them meets another. There’s a click and here IT comes again. How could IT happen? Again? IT happens. Who’s the bad guy now? Or woman?

The love feeling (while IT lasts) is just as strong as it ever was. Only now… IT Hurts!

All the hurts come into play. Guilt, Anger, Fear and Fault and Love itself. IT’s so strong. So Irresistible. The thing is, nobody can make you love them. You do… or, You don’t. You’re trapped. And you can’t really explain why. You can wish IT didn’t happen but, you can’t just wish IT away.

The jilted party cannot understand the Jilter. And the Jilter can’t really explain.., to the Jilted… that LOVE happened. The Jilter can’t splain it. No one can. And no one can make IT happen. And no one can just make IT go away. Sometimes the Jilter wishes IT hadn’t happened but… LOVE is Love.

IT’s strong. IT can’t be shut off. IT can mean pain. IT can make one lose weight. IT can make one do things never intended. But love, like life itself, is irresistible. ‘Unexplainable. Good… and Bad!

The only thing comparable? A good meal!


—Dick Greene
Warren Avenue

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