bagging the limit

bagging the limit

 

 

 

hearts fire stray bullets

the "didn't mean to shoot you" ones

 

we fall 

we fall for the hunters

when we are not the prey

 

then we pray that love 

won't miss aim again,

 

we wear orange fears to alert

but love has a mind of its own

and magic bullets

find the center

the core of thin skinned vulnerability

 

whether we are vested or not

whether the hunters are vested or not

 

licenses are too easy to obtain

we need stricter rules

for love.

 

 

erin-cilberto

2/15/17

Reviews

[Jon Roggie]

Love is not meant to be licensed. Some are poachers, and some are true hunters.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Jon.
j.

[EcstaticEuphoria]

I like it. Very interesting take on something we all know far to well.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, Rosalee.
j.

[Isabella Ivy]

Licenses are indeed too easy to obtain. There should be schooling or something! lol. Great write :) I.I.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you, I.I.

j.

[Isabella Ivy]

You are most welcome :)

[B]

Lol
Yes love can have these unwarranted attacks
And you have no vest on
You wake up thinking what the ....

But hey some hide under the bed cover
That works most of the time lol

Love is crazy
Better stay away from that mess

[jacob erin-cilberto]

i have had enough hunts for crazy...or it hunting me, for sure...thank you, Solo...:)))

read morei have had enough hunts for crazy...or it hunting me, for sure...thank you, Solo...:)))

j.

[Lydia Shutter]

Unfortunately, there is no rule book when it comes to matters of the heart. Anyone can get a marriage license and anyone can make a baby. "whether we are vested or not"...double meaning here. In order to have it all...the love, the house, the family....one must have a good financial foundation. In today's world that is not easy. The Donna Reed show marriage is a thing of the past. Lydi**

[jacob erin-cilberto]

thank you for your insights, lydi...always appreciate your visits.
j.

[andrew mitchell]

One wonders whether today's love is just fast dating, the first sign of a struggle and it's game over. Costly business too. We live in a fickle world of no discipline,no commitment and lesser emphasis on the family unit. Affordable housing is no longer, tainting the family dream of owning a home and all the values that go with it. Nice write J

[jacob erin-cilberto]

yes, a fickle world...for sure...

my class and i just the other night were talking about how unrealistic it seems now to dream of owning a home...that american dream is fading.
thank you, Andrew.
j.

[Jimmy Yetts]

Bullets don't love people; people love people.
I've been trying for years to get one of those love licenses, the rules are strict enough!
I feel as if everything has been pried from my cold dead heart!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

your words make me shiver, Jimmy...and that is because they are true.

j.

[John Alexander McFadyen]

In this day and age it seems relationships are 'moveable feasts' and instant gratification, if not met leaves us loveless again and again as people move on leaving us the assassinated, shot through the heart.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

"shot through the heart and you're to blame, you give love a bad name"

wow, maybe i am doing that.

thank you, John...

[Sheila Kline]

It would indeed be good for a heart to have a permit granted by one who would respect that which has been granted so that the only vest needed would be that which would hold in the love, take that shot in the heart as one from Cupid with his bow rather than from a loaded gun of hurt and pain. Bagging the limit should be only that which brings happiness!
Great metaphors, but you always have those!
p.s. Maybe we need to print a book of instructions as how to guide those magic bullets to a bulls eye in the heart so that love can spill out rather than pain!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

maybe we do need to print that book...you have something there, Sheila...yes, yes...

thank you,

j.

[Sheila Kline]

Guaranteed to be a "self help" manual for millions! LOL
l. Think before speaking as once words are spoken they can't be taken back.
2. Be gentle and loving, forgiving often to the one that you love, and understand that they might not be able to give back as much as you are able to give.........
Yes, I might just work on this as a posting for WC.
Any ideas to add?