love is painful
Love is painful like a prick of the finger.
Love is painful like a kick in the gut.
Love is painful like losing strength on a long swim.
Love is painful like the last rep at the gym.
Love is painful like stubbing your toe.
Love is painful like sending a sext accidentally to a family member.
Love is painful like raising an animal and it dying.
Love is painful like breaking a bone.
Love is painful like growing a plant that never takes.
Love is painful like finding out the salad in the fridge has spoiled again.
Love is painful like seeing an expensive beautiful thing that you can’t take home.
Love is painful like hitting your thumb with a hammer.
Love is painful like the shame of acting out of anger.
Love is painful like running over a small animal crossing the road.
Love is painful like missing the elevator.
Love is painful like being stuck in traffic.
Love is painful like telling your child no.
Love is painful like waving back to someone who is waving to someone behind you.
Love is painful like going to a government office across town and them telling you have to mail the form instead.
Love is being disappointed.
Love is being torn.
Love is torment.
Love is silence.
Love is awkward.
Love is awesome.
Love is meaningful.
Love is everything.