Terese Mörtvik

Loving and Being in Love - Poetry
There's a difference
between loving
and being in love.
A kiss on the head
or a kiss on the cheek,
a kiss on the mouth
with swollen lips -
all mean something different.
I love many,
yet love, not at all.
Not like you;
where your eyes are hot,
mine are tender
and I know that cuts your heart.
There's a knife's edge
between loving
and being in love.