I’ve Read About Love

I have read all I could about love

Through the years and centuries

Flipping through the ancient’s scripts

Their so called; age old wisdom

I’ve read the men who think flattery is key

I’ve read the men who are soft in their approach

I’ve read the women ferocious in their love

I’ve read the women timid to take the next step

I’ve read how people lost love

How people found it and squandered it

I’ve read how it’s been cherished

Through the ages, their lessons, their warnings

To love or to not

The heartbreak people have cried on pages about

The yearning and want

Love that explodes from the page

I’ve read it

Cover to back

And I am the same fool

As all the poets before me

Trying to capture the sacredness

The purity, the craze, the shock

Of the love in and out of my life

I share my love on the page too

For others to read all they can on love

Elizabeth Almeida ©2021