What is LOVE?

What is Love?
Marriage, giving birth,
Trusting someone with your whole heart.
Giving your body,
Looking down on yourself,
Because they want you to
Become their ideal type.

What is love?
Your touch, your trick
Dragged me down
To make me suffer
Physically, mentally
Changing oneself into another
That you like

What is love?
Possession, winning, competition
Sweet fake compliments
Die for each other
Stupid reasons to take your life
If you don’t dare to go public
You don’t have the right to play along
This isn’t drama

Playing along the drama
That you started, blindly
With your whole life
Make someone blush
Make them feel safe when
You are around
Is this love?

Love—can I touch, can I see?
No, I can’t, So how can I know
What is love?
You said love is feeling
But I can’t feel anything
Is feeling nothing also love?

What is love?
Giving gifts, flying kisses
Bromance, Romance
More likely a mystery to me
Which I don’t wanna solve
In any life I get

What is love?
Sacrificing myself to make you happy?
Giving up my dreams, friends, family
Isolating myself from everyone
Cause everyone knows your betrayal
Only I wanna remain unknown of it
Is this love?

What is love?
Caring, devoting yourself
To make someone happy
What about self-happiness?
Why do you have to fade away
To make someone happy?

What is love?
Holding hands, embracing
Holding close, sweet fake talk
Making me slip right into your traps
Traps of giving up my freedoms
Which I can’t exchange
For your fake talk, smile

You gave me a cut
With your talk
Which no one sees
The cut is so deep
Deep inside me
That makes me question
Myself what is love?

“I wrote this kind of love not to solve mysteries, but to honor the confusion. To the person who has been through this kind of love and questioned their worth in the name of love. A mirror held up to the kind of love that asks too much and gives too little.”  — Monika Sunuwar