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LOVE


why are you afraid of love?

why are you afraid to love?

love heals, love won’t harm.

we blame love for our broken history

when love is love.

love is pure but imperfect.

love doesn’t hurt;

loving the wrong person does

but we refuse to admit it

for the sake of love, so we rather say love hurts

when love is love,

pure but imperfect. 

it breaks my heart to worship beauty

and tamper with the hopes that could stir love

like a sweetener to unpreserved chemistry. 

love is easy but rare. 

not with the trust issues and useless affairs.

not battling with your intuitions, 

does he care? does she care? 

love is fearless, love is endless,

pure but imperfect. 

love is love,

so why are you afraid of love?

why are you afraid to love?

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