Today Nana Efua spreads love!

She takes us through the ups and downs as well as the wonders of this universal emotion. Stringed together with her signature free-verse style, this poem is effused with essensce of the subject she writes about -- love! Enjoy.

LOVE!

Love, love, love!

Simple yet puzzling feeling

That affects, changes the chemistry of our very existence

Love

Sweet, soft, sensual

Yet steaming, intense and fierce!

Love,

Expressed in simplicity

Evokes the strongest of emotions in every human:

I care so much

I miss you

You are my world

I love you

Simplistic, but complex to break all barriers

And build broken bridges

Love speaks loudest but with few words

Love moves mighty trees with as little as a touch

Love – fills valleys with just little drops of passion

Love is so beautiful!

But I wonder, I wonder why, why it is so difficult to sustain it?

All too soon,

I care so much is an unspoken taboo

I miss you is a silent murmur

You are my world is a far-fetched thought

And I love you, is a forgotten phrase

Time creates distance

Too much energy emits agony

Space constricts freedom

And habits inconsistently establishes a constant character

And our lives become utterly shattered

Yet we fall in love

Again and again; over and over!

I wonder why?

Is it the pains?

Or the joys?

Or a blend of both?

I wonder?

Love!

Consciously and unconsciously affects our lives

And we love, love and love!

Nana Efua shares her inspiration:

We have all fallen in love before, either once, twice or multiple times, the feeling is always the same.

Often, loving is characterized by some sense of pain or unfulfilled expectation and we get hurt. The popular maxim, “only those close to you can step on your toes”, translated into love parlance that, “ only the ones you love and care deeply often hurt you the strongest”,  is an experience everyone who have ever been in a love relationship can relate to.

What makes love grow sour? Why do we run away from one relationship and start another?  Why do we get hurt in love relationships? Yet most of us are not afraid to fall in love again, over and over again?

This poem explores some of the feelings of loving or being loved, the reasons we fall in love and the challenges experienced when in love.

Interestingly, in spite of all the hurts and pains, we continue to fall in love repeatedly, either over and over again with the same person or with different personalities.

Why have you fallen in love?

Have you experienced love’s pains and yet fallen in love again? Share your experiences for I have no answers!

About author

Nana Efua Rockson is an easygoing affable person with a passion for success. She is a Marketing Communication and PR professional with over ten years experience. She is currently the Group Head, Corporate Affairs & Marketing at GLICO Group Ltd, an indigenous insurance and financial services company.

Writing poetry is her hobby and she enjoys doing it. In today’s chaotic world, one needs space and time for escapism, winding down, and Nana Efua does that by writing poetry. Writing poetry allows her to travel into a world of imagination, reflection, retrospection, introspection and deeper delving into common human dilemmas and package them in poetic language. Poetry gives her the fluidity to express things in few but poignant words and phrases.