Love Poem: Love Hurts
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Written by: Abdul Malik

Love Hurts

I paid the ultimate price for love,
I brought my lovely arsonist home!

There’s a fire raging in my chest
A tornado swirling in my eyes
There’s a tremor in my hand
My lips going numb…
What’s the matter with me?
Can someone care to explain?

Shouldn’t a heart beat lively 
with the nourishing love?
Why is mine like a stone 
tossed in the scorching desert heat?

Is there a new look on my face?
Why is the mirror then
surprised to see me now?

What kind of a strange station 
I have come to in my life?
On this ash-strewn path
there’s nothing but loneliness.  


~07/30/17
~Laura Loo contest