Pseudo Love

 

Love is oft perceived

As a climb up a hill

And many try to climb up

Though they slip back still.

With gutsy determination

They try their very best

With waning strength

To claim their Mount Everest.

It is a misconception

That love we must earn

And after many broken hearts

Some still don’t even learn.

Many a marriage relationship

Starts out so promisingly fair

After a wedding reception

Full of glamour and of flair.

But before too long

There’s no honey in the moon,

The moon has sprung a leak

Much too soon.

A love that had switched on

Suddenly turns right off

And before you know it

All that love is lost.

Pseudo love it must be

It could not have been real

In that before too long

It had become quite stale.

Too often we are fooled

By the appearance of something

Engagement and marriage rings

Followed by much suffering.

The diamond ring was huge

O this love was so sweet,

Topped by a great wedding

Everything was complete.

  

Then the first major problem

Followed closely by the next

And by the time of the third

Everyone was vexed.

Until death we will part

But both are living still

Divorce on the cards

Marriage is now a bitter pill.

Pseudo love just isn’t real

Treat it like a fairy tale,

Look beyond its deceptive veil

In all reality it will fail.

God’s love guides you

Take it on board,

Pseudo love costs you

What you can least afford.

And remember

All that glitters is not gold,

Take your choice,

You have been told.

Stewart Russell © February 2018