Pierre Jeanty

Love her the way you crave to be loved.

If you thirst
for a love that
will drown all of the doubts
growing in your soul
and the fear vacationing in your mind,

You must never settle
for someone who lacks passion
in their eyes when they stare at you.

The pain will come,
let it visit,
cry it out,
vent it out,
bleed it out.

And then ask it to leave.

Do not allow it to build a home
and call it broken.

We aren’t meant to be broken forever,
that is punishment to our hearts and minds.

The sun and the moon
take turns admiring her,
the sun watches her rise,
as it finds its way to
the other side of the world
to cover its next shift.

The moon tags in
to watch her sleep.

You owe no one an apology
for being yourself.

To the previous readers,

You’ve picked up the words that drip from my
heart

and treasured them.

I cannot thank you enough

for supporting what I am doing.

Without you, I’d still exist;

but the poet in me would not have had a voice loud enough.

Thank you from my heart.

Love will leave few bruises

on several occasions.

It will hit some veins,

and do some damage in parts of you

that the eyes can’t see.

But,

it will not give you bullet wounds,

nor will cut deep to the soul

It will never become a bystander while

your heart bleeds to death

Your voice shouldn’t tremble in the midst

of someone who says they love you.

If you are stumbling over your words,

may it be because joy has your knees weak.

But it should never be because of the fact

that fear is swimming through your veins

and doubt overfilling your heart in their presence.

I can’t agree with you or them

and say it’s love dear.

Falling in love can be scary,

but being in love should never be terrifying

She will remember the moments

you made her feel loved

more than the times you said,

“I love you.”

Young love is beautiful,

fall for that boy,

believe that it'll never end,

talk about forever without a care in the world.

However,

do not let old age catch you doing those things.

It will remind you very quickly,

that boys lie and that a man is what you need.

It will tell you over and over that relationships

end and that in a marriage full of love,

is when you'll being seeing forever.

Young love is beautiful, but old love is real.