Byron Poem

"The True Love"

Fake and cold is what you are,
That is what you show.
The love you said was going far,
But our love doesn't grow.

Why does it have to be like this,
With all the push and shove?
Do I really need to address,
That this is not true love!?

True and real is what you need,
To get your fake heart right.
Just take my hand and follow my lead,
Into the joy and light!

There's one more thing I need to say
In order for you to see;
This feeling that has come my way,
Love that will last an eternity!


The poem that I wrote, "The True Love", was based off the romantic tenet of "the natural over the artificial". It demonstrated true love (the natural) at the end of the poem and fake love (the artificial) at the beginning. The poem started off explaining how fake love has no purpose and how it instigates many problems. After realizing that fake love was worthless, the idea of true love was brought forward. The natural, or true love, brings a lifetime full of happiness, which definitely proves that the natural is over the artificial.

Byron, Lord. "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year." British Literature. Ed. Ronald A. Horton. 2nd ed. Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2003. 562-563. Print.