Love and Doubt

[harraser]

I like to say "I love you".
It's not always the truth, but I say it anyway.
After all, being loved makes people feel good
And I like to picture the glow in a persons face after I've told them I love them.
I like to make people feel accepted,
Loved.
So I say it a lot,
Though I rarely feel anything that strongly.


I know some people,
Some people I say "I love you" to.
They're very much like me.
They think too much,
(If there is such a thing)
And they doubt things.
Almost all things.
Although they know they would probably be happier if they didn't.


These people
Upon reading these words
May begin to doubt my love.


But I'm not always lying.


Will they ask me?


Ask me for the truth.
I would never lie to the ones I truly love.

 

[E-girl]

Wow.... so short and simple, yet so strong a message.

It's funny that you bring this topic up. It kind of corresponds to the last topic that i posted in my announcement at the top of the page on love, and saying "i love you." when i read this, it really opens my eyes, and my mind to my own relationship. My boyfriend and i have been together over 2 years and he never tells me he loves me. Sometimes, when i think about it, it kind of bothers me. It bothers me because I really DO love HIM alot -- sometimes so much that my heart could just explode b/c i keep the thought inside. I don't feel comfortable saying "i love you" to someone who won't say it back. I questioned myself, wondering how you can stay with someone for so long and not actually love them, and the conclusion i came to was that maybe love isn't something that always has to be spoken out loud. He had a very damaging past and probably wasn't shown a lot of love, and maybe he's scared to say it. But the thing i've come to realize is that in everything he does for me and the way he treats me, he doesnt NEED to say it. I just know. And its been the biggest obstacle for me to overcome within myself, in this relationship. The acceptance that i DONT need to hear him say those words, in order to believe there could be love that binds us.

So when i read what you write Ant, i'm reassured that the actual saying of those words, can be trivial, meaningless, and masked -- if they are not spoken truly and deeply from the heart.

You make a valid point, and there is still a tenderness that underlies this whole poem. I do my own reading-between-the-lines on this one. And i'm really glad you posted it, not just for this person, but for me as well, for what i took out of it.

thank u.

 

[FixXxer]

if there was a clap avatar.. id use it now.. well done.

"Ask me for the truth.
I would never lie to the ones I truly love."

thats my favorite.. great way to finish.

 

[neverwas]

These people
Upon reading these words
May begin to doubt my love.


But I'm not always lying.


Will they ask me?


Ask me for the truth.
I would never lie to the ones I truly love.

i actually had a lot more quoted but i felt that this section here was really the only one that needed to be quoted.

im one of those people that like to tell my friends i love them. i mean hell...ive said it to you often enough to drive you crazy

ioften think i over use the words...but then i relaise that its always nice to tll people whom you care bout that you do love them. i love all my friends

people place to much emphasise on those three words...for me...one doesnt have to be in a serious partnership/relationship with someone to appreciate them enough to tell them they love them.

e-girl:

But the thing i've come to realize is that in everything he does for me and the way he treats me, he doesnt NEED to say it.

actions speak louder than words.

But I'm not always lying.

Ask me for the truth.
I would never lie to the ones I truly love.

i dont think theres much more i could say without things being assumed but you know i love ya babe and you're one of those people that touches everyone with what you write and how you portray things through your eyes.

*mwah*

 

[up all night]

*bump*