Lies About Love

I was reading a friend’s blog (Dina) and chanced upon a poem by D.H. Lawrence:

"We are all liars, because
The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow,
Whereas letters are fixed,And we live by the letter of truth.
The love I feel for my friend, this year,
Is different from the love I felt last year.
If it were not so, it would be a lie.
Yet we reiterate love! love! love!
As if it were a coin with a fixed valueInstead of a flower that dies,
and opens a different bud."

Lies About Love – D.H. Lawrence

Lawrence explains that love always changes and even if you feel that you are in love now (i.e. the truth), the love will eventually change thus the truth would eventually be a lie, “The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow”.

I mean, how true is that? We all lie about love, one point in our lives and I definitely have felt love so strongly for many “someones” before, only for the feelings to be swept away by the winds of change. So, can I really blame that someone to have his feelings changed for me?Yes, love is not a coin with a fixed value, we have to work hard on it so that it continues to climb in value. Only when the value steadily escalates, can we enjoy the fruit of our labour i.e. the relationship with that special someone. And then, this poem will not be applicable anymore....