Love can be so stubborn at times
Singing without an audience
Persisting in spite of rebuffs
Ignoring its relative demerits
Turning a blind eye
To the tell-tale signs of retreat
Not knowing that
Unrequited love is
Radioactive waste
Noxious and odious
That should be jettisoned
on the double.
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Not all love can be reciprocated for one cannot force it. Still, the one who loves but does not enjoy it in return, suffers greatly and such radioactive fallout should be jettisoned. A wonderful use of prompts, Punam.
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No, all love cannot be reciprocated and not all unrequited love is radioactive. But in some cases it becomes so. Thank you so much.
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True! You are kindly welcome.
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I don’t think love, when not expected from the loved, is a waste!! 🙂
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In my humble opinion, love when not accepted and forcibly thrust on someone, can be destructive. Again, perspectives vary. 🙂
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I truly agree with you that it could be destructive!! Anyway, I can love a flower high above but without any intention to make it my own.
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Oh yes! In that case it certainly would not be destructive. 🙂
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Sure, and my greatest pleasure!! 🙂
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Thank you! 🙂
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Radioactive waste. I love that phrase for unrequited live. Wonderful!
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Thank you so much Lorraine. I am glad you like it.
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Loved the way you have described unrequited love and used the metaphor radioactive.Brilliant Punam
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Thank you so much, Megha.
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Wonderful take on radioactive Punam.🤗 ❤️
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Thanks, my dear! 😊💕
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You’re very welcome 😊 💕
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Well, I wasn’t expecting radioactive waste to show up in a poem about love.
In all honesty, however: this is true, and the suggestion at the end is exactly what is required at all times. Trouble is, people take this to mean “stop loving them!” No, it means love them in different ways, love them in ways that will be requited because you deserve to be loved, also.
Suggestion box.
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Haha! Thank you so much. Totally agree with you. Such suggestions are always welcome.
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I wish we could take heed more often is all.
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Brilliance sparkling all through.. superb..!! 👏🏼👏🏼😊😊👌🏼👌🏼💕
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🙏 Humbled. Thank you so much. 😊❤️
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😇💕
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Tennyson once said “its better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all”…i think unrequited love is like this…its still love after all..
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Oh yes, it is love still. But when it turns obsessive, it becomes destructive.
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I agree with you on that 100 percent..
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Loved this my friend
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Thank you so, so much Shantanu.
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