I Read Something Today...

I read something today, which said that love is never supposed to hurt.

I disagree

Love is supposed to hurt

And make you drag your heart through the dirt.

Love is supposed to scrub out your wounds

And cause the kind of pain that only doing so can.

I read something today, which said that love shouldn’t hurt.

My darling, whoever you are, I disagree.

Love should hurt

Love should rip your fucking heart out and touch your soul

Any real love will

Love is all encompassing of pleasure and pain

Love is both and the same

Without one you can never know the other.

Love will wash through your soul, and one can never be whole

If joy and pleasure are all that you know.

Love creates the ability to feel pain

And allows us to drown in the beauty of rain.

Saying that love shouldn’t hurt is like saying that love is pretty

Love is not pretty

Love is a raw storm which takes on many forms

Love is ugly and desperate

Both glorious and exquisite

Love is bleeding and dancing with demons

And the knowing of completeness 

that comes in the silence of rain spattered treetops in the sunlight.

Love is crawling around in someone’s filthy heart, when they’re covered in dirt

And drowning in hurt,

When they are at their all-time very worst

Looking them in the eye, and saying

I love you and all the little dings and dents in your soul

Come with your demons, your inner screaming

All that keeps you bleeding

Because love is desperate and foolish and brave

It knows not the bounds of sanity

And shrinks not from the minds profanity.

Love is not saying

I will pay any price to have you

Love is knowing that one would pay any price

To feed the divine joy of another being.

Love is not blind

It is all-seeing

The most beautiful expression of being.

I read something today, which said that love shouldn’t hurt.

My darling, whoever you are, I disagree completely.