Love Poem 46

is it so wrong for two people

to fake their way through love

just so neither have to face the world alone?

It isn’t the most romantic thing in the world to consider,

and I understand that.

The whole idea that people

might settle for a lesser degree of love

just so they can exist alongside another human being

doesn’t fit the programming we’re given.

Probably a lot of people will say

never settle,

don’t ever accept less,

never take second best,

and I absolutely hear that,

but it’s easier said than done, isn’t it?

It’s easier to

glamourize and glorify

than it is to

live and experience.

Sometimes all we want

is for someone to hold us

while we stare into the void.