fun fact-- i was listening to 18 by one direction and i misheard the lyric that goes "to be loved and to be in love" and i then i wrote this poem :)
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to be loved is to be alive
to feel the grass
under your feet
to feel the wind
across your cheeks
and to smile
to be loved is to be alive
to let whoops of
laughter
escape your lips
to hold hands as you
run
through sunflower
fields
in the night
to be loved is to be alive
to feel hearts
beating
one
two
three
in time
to feel trembling fingers
twine
with yours
at the sunrise
to be loved is to be alive
to watch old films
and new ones
to make love
and make fun
of little quirks and
habits
only for your
eyes
to be loved is to be alive
to have dances
in the
springtime
to be yours while
you are mine
empires can crumble but
we will survive
to be loved is to be alive
soft singing and
broken rhymes
rowdy laughing and
empty bottles
until none of us can
walk in a
straight line
knowing a pair of
hands
better than your own
to be loved is to be alive
a switch flicked in your
soul
that turns on the
lights
that illuminates the
ever-looming darkness
and shows you that
true monsters
lie under masks
to be loved is to be alive
stealing brief moments
from god
just for you and i
bodies pressed to bodies
and hearts beating in
time
to be loved is to be alive.