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To live, love, and be loved

Without music and poetry,
I would never have become the person I am.
I fell in love with the idea falling in love,
and it broke my heart.

I want more then to just make it by.
I want to Live, Love, and be Loved,
loved for who I am.
And to feel wanted there.

Wanted to hold, and comfort.
Wanted to be kissed, and made to laugh.
I want to be needed there.
Needed for a laugh, or a hug,
Needed as a shoulder, to dry the tears.
Loved for who I am, who I can be.
Not hated for who I was, or who I am now.
To be loved as no one has loved me before.

Without music. I wouldn't be able,
to shout from pain at the top of my lungs.
And people not care at all.
To blast out my thoughts, and live the music.

Without poetry. I wouldn't be able,
to pour out my feelings,
in a understanding language.

I would have gotten the help,

that changed and saved my heart.

I would be lost to the sea of dreams,
sailing a ship of sorrows.
Fighting a storm of lunacy,
from dampening  my light.

 

My light for the will to live,

love, and be loved.

For who I am.
And who I can be.

Author notes

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." -Dead Poet's Society

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  • movedon
    March 24

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    Thats my favorite movie. I like this poem...I know the title is the saying you basically live by, and the poem did the quote strong justice.

    love,
    mylee