Love Poem: Love At Least As I Knew It
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Written by: Yolanda Nicholsen

Love At Least As I Knew It

love at least as I knew it
was blatantly bleak I suppose
love had been wasted on morbid findings
lost beyond repair had I been in love 

with love or perhaps thee mere objects 
of affection clouding all logistics beliefs 
of what love should be at least love 
as I knew it could I in some way change 

the way love turned out if I myself 
fell madly in love with the idea of loving myself 
could one actually love themselves 
as they consumed love with another being 

or was love this impossible challenge 
incapable of experiencing without loving 
oneself first and foremost and if this was factual
I'd have to be faced with sheer logic 

that I'd broken my own heart 
knowing full well no one could 
love me more than I myself 
this preconceived notion 

had broken everything 
I'd ever known completely 
thee unamendable love
at least as I knew