[Poem] Truths

2009-05-02 @ 3:28 a.m.

truth
is love and it is
better to love and lose than
never to love at all and
truth
is that love does
not necessarily lead
to happiness
though books and movies
and stories and advertisements and
happy endings
lead us to believe so and
truth
is that love is
a feeling
(and meaning and hope
and a future and reflection
and substance and anticipation
and all manner
of other
things) and
so is
pain and
isn't it better to feel
something
than nothing
at
all? and

the truth is
that now I know what love is
and even if I never
do again
at least I have
the ache and memory and
lingering desire

and the bitterness, too:
some things are better bitter
I'll sprinkle this bitterness
into my tea
lest it get
too
damned
sweet.