Love makes poets out of all of us. The few who feel intimidated or embarrassed about writing out our love and longing often take recourse to sending lyric-heavy songs, or selections from a poem (like those included here), just to let the object of our affection know how they make us feel. As someone who is constantly moved by love and reckless enough to publicly write about it, I’ve also often relied on sending other people’s poems to reveal my own feelings.
An added benefit to only dating people on the broad left is that you soon realise that the poets who have authored the most revolutionary lines have also penned the most romantic verses. I think this is because in so many ways love is the entry-point to the vision for a just society – if we have to imagine a better world, we must begin from love.
