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An Undemanding Desire

July 18, 2026

I know what love would feel like I know what it creates I see- like- then love strike just to get washed away from me. They say- "Love and kindness are free" But it is not so- For me, love is like a curse- to be overwhelmed by someone only to be betrayed, just like that. I am Seventeen- or perhaps, not yet I still couldn't figure out- the human behavior- not even a slight edge! They say- "Love and kindness are free" Yet it is the very thing for which I have starved the most Fleeting friends, demanding parents, tormenting teachers, and so on- getting exhausted- day by day- by them. They say- "Love and Kindness are free" In this billion of people where could I find one- The love of my life?

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Personal autobiographical reflection on teen romantic experience and loneliness.

Multiple interconnected ideas: love, betrayal, isolation, societal pressure across 25 lines.

Strongly negative; despair, exhaustion, betrayal, and existential loneliness dominate.

Moderate intensity; frustrated dashes and fragmented syntax create tension without explosive force.

25 lines places poem in 16-30 line range.

Love as curse, similes with 'like,' personification implicit; ornamental but restrained.

Pure lyric internal voice; confessional, introspective first-person throughout.

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An Undemanding Desire

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