If Love Ceased

A perspective on rejection and defining its parameters and driving factor.

What do you do?

When your heart becomes broken?

Are you to piece it back together?

Grab some tape and glue and apply to the cracks?

Maybe I'm suppose to let it stay broken,

To let the heart heal itself?

Let the heart slowly wrap itself back over

and create a scar over the pain?

But what if my heart never heals?

If I am to remain broken and shattered,

Never to set foot across the line of love,

That I so desperately desire?

What if there are certain people,

That, instead of finding love,

Are here solely for the purpose to be rejected,

As to give credence to the definition?

What if in order for those accepted to feel accepted,

Must be encompassed by those whom society rejects?

Those which put their heart on the line only for it to die,

And for the world to crack and shatter it.

Would acceptance truly exist if not for rejection?

If rejection did not exist, would acceptance not fade,

Into something much different and callous?

Acceptance would simply become a set standard.

The special aspect of acceptance,

The very definition of intimacy, would be altered,

In order for some to be happy,

Some, if not most, must suffer in pain.

I suppose this reigns true throughout the world, no?

In order for their to be joy, there must be pain,

In order for there to be peace, there must be some chaos,

In order for there to be love, the must be an idea of hate.

While being rejected may not equate itself to hate,

It certainly does not equate itself to love.

If it is not an extreme, not one of the two,

Which is it, as it must be defined, correct?

What if rejection and acceptance,

In and of themselves, are emotions,

Or, if you're prefer, extensions of emotions

Extensions of one of two very powerful emotions

One emotion is love, of course,

But we are still at a loss to the second,

The alternate driving factor in rejection.

But something that is not hate

So, we must look at acceptance.

Acceptance is the product of love,

Or a baser function of the sort,

And this love takes form into acceptance

As rejection is the opposite of acceptance,

Or the absence of acceptance, rather,

Then rejection may also be defined,

As the very absence of acceptance's cause

Thus, rejection is defined as the absence of love,

Or the absence of a baser form of love.

Then we must define the name of absence of love,

Which is not hate, for it is not in this extreme.

Absence of love toward another,

In the sense of romantic love,

Means the lack of desire for intimacy,

The lack of desire for exposure with said person

In a sense of speaking, if you will,

Absence of love is solitude,

Thus, rejection is someone else pushing

Their desire for solitude onto you, and only you

This begs the question, though,

If everyone were to be rejected,

Would love still exist as it does now?

Or would it die just as it does in hearts of the currently rejected?

And if rejection were the set standard,

would it be considered rejection?

Would anyone feel denied love or unloved,

If love ceased to exist?