One of the most common folklore motifs is love. Puppy love, unrequited love, lost love, and love reclaimed. The last is perhaps one of the most profoundest human experiences. Short of never losing sight of love, reclaiming the faith one has lost in it is something everyone hopes to experience in the course of their lives.
Here is a poem about that by Danielle Joy Linehart, author of From Deep Within: Bruised and Blind. Whomever she addresses this folk poem to must be a very special person.
GAINING BACK THE LOVE THAT I ONCE LOST
I love you
What does that mean?
I am sorry
Does that mean it won’t happen again?
Trust
Something that I never knew
Until
The day I met you
You showed me the meaning of “Us”
The meaning of a relationship
Thank you
For that special note
The dozen roses
The phone call just to say “I Miss You”
The support
Most of all
The love that you give me
Without you
I would never have gained back
The love that I once lost.
I love the line "reclaiming the faith one has lost in it(love)something everyone hopes to experience in the course of their lives." It is so very true, for I know I hoped and prayed to recover faith in love after my divorce.
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