Reflection on The Look

The Look

Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.

Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.

-Sara Teasdale-

As they would say it, a kiss is one of the many ways to show love. But this poem seems to speak the different sense of the word love.

For me, this poem speaks of the different characteristics of love that differs a lot in how a lover would show it.

The first two could be concluded as those people really passionate about love. Showy in their ways. Everything seems to be compared.

Two people kissed her in different seasons. This could mean a change of heart for a girl from a person to another person. This could also imply that the boy also had a change of heart. The third never kissed her but instead looked into her eyes in a differently special way.

Time passed by swiftly and the warmth of the kiss left. But never did the meaningful stare erase from her mind.

Sometimes, love need not be very showy. Sometimes love is best when cherished a lot by the memories you spend together. These times may not of the longer scope but the quality of the time spent with the person you feel for makes worthwhile.

“Even though something is not seen, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.” This is a quotation I got from a bookmark from a friend (that’s the reason why I keep bookmarks because they give words of wisdom).

Love may not necessarily shown. There are a lot of cases of love where for more than 2 years they have managed in safekeeping to themselves. This kind of love may develop hurt. But his kind of love is more responsible in a sense that there is always time to think and enough time to think undo safely what has happened.

Each of us have reasons why we fall for somebody, regardless of who that person is, that reason is far explained by the heart alone but also by our minds. We all have reasons why we don’t find appropriate ways to show like a kiss or a letter. We all have these reasons to live by. The world is full of these reasons making it a whole large part if reason and rationale.

I may not be too good to be talking about love as a thing but I will just share a part of whatever it is that I have heard or in some ways, experienced. For me, love does not take two to blossom. Sometimes, it is always better to keep it to ourselves because with this we could be able to rewind everything and change something that in such a way nobody will be in trouble. Love will come our way. It will just come by and it is up to us to decide if it id really the right thing for us. Love requires sacrifice. Sacrifice for a lover who is not loved back. Sacrifice for a lover, who is happy on his or her own and a lot more sacrifice for a lover who is loved back because he or she has to maintain such special bond.

During our young ages, we were fond of keeping memories of those people we love. Even the slightest touch of a person we love, we would interpret as something else, believe what we feel, keep it and one day, we use it to once fill up a frustrated heart, a heart full of yearning for the love that has never came back.