Wordsworth Magazine Spring 2022

[love] l o v e love. love is a word. love can mean many things. love can relate to being happy. love can relate to being sad. love can be a spiral of emotions. love can be its own special feeling. but when i say “i love” i mean it. when i say i love someone i mean they are my world. when i say i love someone i mean i’d do anything to see them smile. when i say i love someone its true. love makes me feel amazing and well, loved but love does not just do good things. love can cause pain. love can burn worse than fire on your skin. love has a knife that will stab your back over and over. love can leave a wound worse than a bullet. love can kill. some people will kill for love. love is a drug. people get addicted to it. love is more addictive than sugar, nicotine or alcohol. love can make someone high. love can make someone low. love can break a heart. love can mend a heart. maybe that’s why i need love. maybe i need it to mend my broken heart, or maybe i just crave it.

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