SONNET 116

Marriage of true minds

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

by Shakespeare

At school I seriously hated poetry. Friends told me I simply need to find poetry that suits my taste. I can honestly say I do not know much about poetry and neither have I found the type that tickles my fancy. Though this one sonnet honestly had me thinking. It has so much hidden detail and meaning which is what Shakespeare was most famous for, you cant help but try relate to it.

Love is not easily explainable and is mighty hard to describe on an A4 page, but this sonnet has it right down to perfection. He describes love as a feeling one cannot shake, no matter under what circumstance, it is not altered one day to the other. No, if we are talking true love, it is a feeling that is beyond you. That can have you floating on cloud 9 the one day, and have you down in the dumps the next, yet you love nontheless. This reminds me of a verse in the Bible, not quiet sure which verse exactly,but its probably in  the book of Proverbs. It speaks of how love is not easily angered, its caring, thoughtful etc. The point is, humankind in our day claim to love, then three years down the line you hear of that same couple filing for divorce. That is not how love works, frankly that is not love. As love is ''no time's fool''. So when I hear the word love, it simply reflects on this poem.. If it can match all that Shakespeare says, THEN ITS LOVE.

If you can love beyond all hurt and pain, then its love.