I Don’t Always Love You (A Love Poem)

sometimes I don’t love you

sometimes you’re nothing

more than a lamp in the room

a lamp I can’t decide if I like

with the rest of the furniture

in here

sometimes you don’t love me

sometimes I’m everything

you can’t stand, like the dust

collecting on the bookshelves

trickling down, making your

insides erupt

sometimes I do love you

sometimes you’re cool

water trickling down 

my chest, skyfalling 

into my soul, iron gates

opening like Heaven,

like God said it was

okay

sometimes you do love me

sometimes I’m hot

lava melting your gaze,

oozing into your heart,

lighting up chambers

like Hell isn’t so bad,

like Lucifer fucked off

today

sometimes we don’t love 

each other. sometimes we’re 

raging forest fires consuming

all that’s in our path, demanding

all we’re suddenly starving for,

destroying homes like playing

house, breaking bones 

like breaking mass, like Father, 

you have sinned and damn 

you, damn you to God-damn 

Hell!

sometimes we do love

each other. sometimes we’re

glaciers melting into one

another, gliding over edges,

expanding into the sea,

rising with the shoreline,

and drowning all 

that gets in 

our way.

Karyn Renee is a poet who explores topics related to family, healing, spirituality, love, and personal evolution.

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