Performed by Val Cole

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Get to know the poet:

1) What is the theme of your poem?

The theme of my poem is love.

2) What motivated you to write this poem?

I am a therapist and I had a client who was processing what love meant to them and I decided to write a poem on what love meant for me.

3) How long have you been writing poetry?

I have been writing poetry since the summer of 2020.

4) If you could have dinner with one person (dead or alive), who would that be?

Lol, this is a great question umm maybe my high school sweet heart who passed away my junior year of high school or God I think that would be a dinner of questions rather than eating.

5) What influenced you to submit to have your poetry performed by a professional actor?

I want to get my poetry out there and I think this a great way for my poetry to be heard.

6) Do you write other works? scripts? Short Stories? Etc..?

Yes, I have written a short story and submitted elsewhere, but didn't get accepted which is okay.

7) What is your passion in life?

My passion in life is to create a space in my world to generate positive energy and love to others and in hopes they do the same.

POEM:

Love is like sitting down at your favorite restaurant & eating your favorite meal
Just to walk away from the table with no left overs & wallet feeling smaller based on the bill

Love smells like your favorite desert on Christmas evening when all the presents have opened, yet saddened to have to wait a year for those very moments

Love looks like a family picture on vacation with big bright smiles & hugs that were just frowns & complains of all that’s around, low & above

Love sounds like waves in an ocean or seashells at the beach the closer you get the more intense almost forgetting the sound of peace

Love feels like rolling around in silk sheets that just came from the dryer as you roll around with your eyes closed then open just to notice you never took them out the dryer

Love to me is imaginary a feeling, a smell, taste, sound, or look we want to last forever, yet comes & goes like many of the other emotions we tend to hang on