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Why do we love love when love seems to hate us
I asked that 2 years ago & this is what the debate is

Love itself is better than life itself
So we do all types of things in which inflict self
We put ourselves on the back burner to aid others help
Yet the horrendous reality is that we need to invest in self

We go & do for others, yes the ones we love
Yet we can't be fully alive until we do what me must

We must stop accepting him back when he breaks your heart & cheats
We must stop putting our girls behind our bros & these streets

We must love our skin they way god made it
See you'll pass up that special one next time you get a face lift

We must stop putting the club & a boy in front of our infant
We must begin to realise that without change nothing will be different

We must understand what love is & exactly what it means
For those of you who need help please read Corinthians 1-13

We must begin to appreciate us you & I
Because I could never love another who doesn't reach for the sky
Yet that's my own pride see I love love & this life I'm ready to die
Because if I leave now I know that I set my goals & aimed real high

& artistically this poem here is the kind I wouldn't expect you to get
I just hope when you truly see love, you won't pass up on it

See this poem of love & the question in which I ask
Is extremely irrelevant to our future, present & past

Because love 1st & foremost is always a gift
That's why I give you my hearts in small bits
See what's the value of a 100 dollars if you just receive it?
Will it be invested & valued like 100 that you've truly earned it
Because this love for God, my kids, you, my friends is solely a gift
So what's the importance of love if we don't truly appreciate it.

-Darrin Elliot