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mr_fluffy

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more than a warm body to cuddle up to at night.
more than long, passionate kisses, or furtive, spontaneous smooches.
more than walking hand in hand down the street with a big, cheesy grin on your face.
more than hot, sweaty periods of bliss.
more than long, deep conversations and making plans for the future.
more than being there for another person.
more than settling for what's available or achievable.
more than our own narrow preconceptions, expectations and biases.
more than ...

more than these, and yet a synergy of little things.

not about control and manipulation.
not about lying, pregnant silences or obscuring the truth.
not about animal attraction, and selfish satisfaction.
not about taking, but all about giving.
not about to grow from small beginnings without nurturing and hard work.
not a panacea for personal flaws and dissatisfaction.
not a concept able to be encapsulated by words.
not a feeling that can be ignored, or something that will leave your life unchanged.
not a destination, but a journey and a way of life.

not about the 'me', and all about the 'us'.

fresh and new and exciting every time it comes around.
a mind-set and a filter on the world. it gets better and more satisfying with experience and practice.
surprising and scary, satisfying and demanding, tolerant and stringent, eternal and ephemereal.
the stongest certainty and the most elusive 'wil'o the wisp'.

constantly giving me a new perspective on life.
constantly revealing, humbling and enriching.

grand =D
 
thank you for this reminder

not about taking, but all about giving.
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sometimes i feel like all i do is give and give and give in my relationship, and sometimes i feel like he's not giving enough back. but i realized this weekend that we give to each other in different ways. for me, its giving him little things to make him smile -- like cards, daisies, notes on his windshield, or kisses all over... for him, its something different. we were at Long Beach Island over the weekend and there's about a mile of big rocks stretched along the beach. we wanted to walk to whole length of it, but it was hard after awhile. i noticed that every time he encountered a rock with uneven surfaces, or a big gap in the rocks, he would always turn around to make sure i got over it ok. like he knew where i might run into trouble. or the way he kept putting dollar after dollar into the Skill Crane to try to win me the little pink care bear that i wanted...

not about to grow from small beginnings without nurturing and hard work.
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there is a movie, and i cant think right now which movie it is. but there is a line from it that always stuck in my mind "Maybe love shouldn't be such hard work." and i thought maybe i agreed. but now i know that it has to grow from SOMETHING. and i put all my effort into this one, because i want it to work. so i believe this part.

not a concept able to be encapsulated by words.
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it sometimes bothers me that after a year and a half, we dont really say "i love you"... but i dont think that means he doesn't. maybe words ARENT enough. maybe he cant tell me how he feels.... i'm starting to realize, that's ok too. i feel it when i'm with him. and that's all the matters.

not a feeling that can be ignored, or something that will leave your life unchanged.
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sometimes after a hard breakup, you might say you wish you would have never done any of it in the first place if it meant heartache at the end. and every time you enter a new relationship, you take the risk that it wont work out. and that it might put another scar on your heart forever. but love is knowing you will be changed by another person... whether for better or for worse... and going through with it anyway.

thank you so much for this.
 
not a concept able to be encapsulated by words.
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even then you've put into words all the feelings and expressions I've been feeling for so long.

not a destination, but a journey and a way of life.
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and so far the journey has been very enriching, enlightening and rewarding :)

I'm crying as I read this, and replying but it's happy tears.

Thank you for this piece and I love you heaps. More than I can ever express in words. All I can say is, to steal from boyzone ~ everyday I love you, and even more each day.
 
Thats a beautiful poem mr fluffy- ive always shyed away from reading poems about love, mainly because ive never really been in love and dont want to make it upset me... but this was beautiful. And im able to picture myself feeling these things with a certain person :)
 
Mr. Fluffy that is just lovely. You have conveyed the complexities of love well (through defining it as too complex to be simply defined ;)). All the best to you two!*waves to biski*

:DSmiley (snuggling cuddlefish)
 
Flufster, glad to see you out of the singles thread. Let's face it, neither of us wanted to spend two more years there... :)

ANd let me just say that i love you poem, and relate completely. Congrats man. Congrats. :)
 
This is one of the greatest things that I have read in a while... many people claim to be in love.. but take so much for granted... as E-girl says " love should'nt take so much work" and she's right.. when your in love things just fall in place...

You get this overwhelming feeling on the inside that no one can see. And no matter how many wonderful things you do or say.. it's hard to make someone understand..

When I touch my baby.. my insides tremble.. my hands begin to shake..and I'm so happy.. that everytime I'm around him I could cry...

He and I love each other so much that It will always be unplaceable...

congrads.. everyone deserves to be happy:)
 
=D thank you to everyone one that responded.

and you are all correct, only someone in love could understand someone in love.

i feel blessed for having been given the chance.
 
i know this is an old post but i just read it and felt that i must respond. This is a great poem. as i read i feel every emotion you describe. its wonderlly written.
 
I don't often read about love, I guess I've got jaded with the basterd little thing. But I liked this, both for your writing and for the commentry written by others. I never noticed how much I'd grown to despise romantic love, how religiously I avoid it, I didn't even notice..... it was just something unbearably awful, something I didn't want anymore.
I forgot that it can be nice too.
thankyou.
 
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