One Word: A Hundred Times: Love Poem by Ninusha Ranasinghe

Love, it can be beautiful
Love, it can be dazzling
Love, it can intimidate you
Love, it can bring out the best in you
Love, it can make you wander. 5

Love, it can make you cry
Love, it can make you scream
Love, it can break your heart,
Into tiny pieces and cannot be found.
Love, it can torture you till death
Love, it can haunt you after. 10

Love, it will make you worry
Love, it will make you care
Love, it will make you pity another
Love, it will make you surrender
Love, it will make you lost. 15

Love, it can make you loud
Love, it can make you cruel
Love, it can make you mean
Love, it can make you selfless
Love, it can make you curse. 20

Love, it can help you breath
Love, it can help you survive
Love, it can help you guide
Love, it can help you move
Love, it can help you feel alive. 25

Love, it can make you brave
Love, it can show you courage
Love, it can stand up for you
Love, it can make you reach heights
Love, it can be your shoulder to lean on. 30

Love, is art
Love, is music
Love, is poetry
Love, is beauty
Love, is love. 35

Love, is scary
Love, is dark
Love, is loud
Love, is cold
Love, is scarred. 40

Can you define love?
Can you express love?
Can you hide love?
Can you shift love?

No. One can only feel love. 45

Love, shines
Love, enlightens
Love, reflects
Love, refracts
Love, transpires. 50

Love, will not expire
Love, will not pause
Love, will not resume
Love, will not die
Love will retain. 55

Love, is a religion
Love, is a belief
Love, is faith
Love, is an illusion
Love, is immortal. 60

Love finds beauty in the wild
Love finds shade in the scorch
Love finds light in the dark
Love finds love in hatred
Love finds life in death. 65

Love makes you weak
Love makes you shrink
Love makes you quiet
Love makes you fragile
Love makes you sick. 70

Love makes all others mute
Love makes all lights dim
Love makes all flowers wilt
Love makes all rivers dry
Love makes all hearts die. 75

What can make you die when you are young but not buried until you are old? Love
What can make you break all the rules you've set for yourself? Love
What can make you think all other things irrelevant? Love
What can make you and break you at the same time? Love
What can make you feel as if the world crashes down infront of you? Love. 80


Love can make you stand up
Love can make you pick pace
Love can make you give up
Love can make you possessed
Love can make you powerless. 85

Love can find you someday
Love can take you somewhere
A paradise you saw in your dreams,
A hell you wouldn't want to set foot on.
Love can find you someone
Worth all the pain and scars you endured.
Love can pour out the good in you somehow
To a heart that knows to absorb it all.
Love can make you worth the wait. 90


What is it like to love you? To break down all my walls and show out my delicate art.
What is it like to be loved by you? To unwrap my knotted heart and to set my wings free.
What is it like to lose your love? To prick every cell of my body until no more blood is left to leave.
What is it like to watch you love someone else? To see a part of me breaking down in pain nothing will ever fix again.
What is it like to watch that someone else love you back? To have my garden under the sun without water. Burning yet blooming. 95


You might not have loved me yesterday
You might not love me today
You might not love me tomorrow
You might not love me forever
But you will know that I love you everyday. 100