l.r.h — Summary

I feel in love with you because You loved me When I couldn't love myself

Learn Poems app

Try the Learn Poems app

Everything from the website trainer, and more: new exercises, voice recording and sharing, reminders, quick review.

Three short lines carry a surprisingly big idea: the speaker fell for someone because that person loved them first, at a time when they couldn't manage to love themselves. The love here isn't described as sparkling or dramatic. It's described as a kind of rescue. Someone else saw something worth loving when the speaker saw nothing.

The speaker's feeling is mostly gratitude, mixed with a quiet vulnerability. Admitting "I couldn't love myself" is an honest, exposed thing to say, and the poem doesn't dress it up. The opening line, "I feel in love," looks like a slip for "fell," though it also accidentally suggests the speaker is feeling this love now, in the present. The mood is tender, plain, and a little sad, because the pain of self-doubt sits right beside the warmth. The brevity makes it feel like a confession, said simply and without defense.

Read also

More by InfluentialKilljoys

All poems
RomanticInfluentialKilljoys

I'm addicted to you

Before I could leave You stopped me And pulled me into your warm embrace Your light hint of
SadInfluentialKilljoys

* * *

I knew a bot who liked to draw He drew pictures that nobody saw Be was most artistic late at night In the bathroom and out sight
SadInfluentialKilljoys

her.

I touched her hands and Said they were cold; Then she said: you haven't touched my heart darling