Fear of Love

[Lightning Rod]

I'm afraid to fall in love
because I know what comes next
irritation, indifference and reading between lines of text
and the toothpaste tube and dirty socks
do I like spaghetti, do you like lox?
The Eagles annoy me and you hate Coltrane
I thought you were clever once, now too clever
and if you deign to take me to your bed
is my tongue too clever or just my head?

I'm fond of sitting, you want to run
I like a simile, you like a pun
what is a bore to me, to you is fun
I will have plenty and you will have none

I'm afraid to fall for love
but love is a sucker for fear
it seeks what is lost
is far as it's near
it's the sum of what you thought you wanted
divided by what you appreciated
I swore I would write bitter poetry
but all poets are liars and
by necessity they beg food
and affection like dog biscuits
and they give away all their secrets
forget washing the shameful socks
if you know too much, you know too much

you need a death wish to fall in love
it's cancer on a losing proposition
familiarity breeds divorce
and the litigation of domestic tranquility
goes on and on and on
like the disease of life lingering
a corpse of dreams
a bait and switch casino game
you know the odds

[judih]

you have a personal revelation
& i feel i'm being turned inside out
you see my nodes of irritation
before i feel them
how much closer can i take?

[Lightning Rod]

you have a personal revelation
& i feel i'm being turned inside out
you see my nodes of irritation
before i feel them
how much closer can i take?

don't take it personally
if I try for the universal
I'm a fool that way

[mnaz]

"a corpse of dreams"...

opposites attract, and all that.

the ride gets a little rough there at the end.

[hester_prynne]

searingly, agonizingly good read.
"corpse of dreams" indeed.
universal yes.
Pain.

Bravo...
H

[e_dog]

this sounds like shell silverstein.

nice rhymes, l-rod.

[Arcadia]

so, do you love her or not? (I´m joking!).
beautiful poem, l-rod!!!!!!!

[mtmynd]

i don't see 'falling in love' as a choice... really.

[Lightning Rod]

thank you hest, mnaz, arcadia for tuning in
cec--you are probably right. That's why they call it 'falling' in love. The fall is perhaps involuntary and it feels great until you hit the ground.

[mtmynd]

L'Rod : "...it feels great until you hit the ground."

fortunately, not everyone hits the ground... some hit the water, others hit the hay bales... one can't ever really know until it happens, eh?

[e_dog]

Republican Party feeds off
the Love of Fear--
phobiphilia --
then
We must assert
the love of peace
philopaxia--
and the love of love
philophilia --
and while we're at it,
love of Spears,
britneymania,
cause she's sotalented.
i digress,
the point is,
Democracy requires a New Yippie Partay
overcome Democrats and smoke tha green.