I don't have to know how to swim
In order to love the ocean
The salty water, the sandy beach
The glistening shine of the sun reflecting the waves and sea
I don't have to know how to write
before I love every literary form of arts
To be enchanted with prose and poems
lyrics that rhyme, sonnets that gives a tune
All chapters to ignite my soul
I do not have to know how to dance
to be amazed by dances itself
every move maneuvers to the beat
bodies form a rhythm
coordination plans each moment
I do not have to know how to play instruments
before even loving the sound of music
Every keys of the piano holds my soul
In every strings of a harp i cannot play, I was bound to fall
tune of guitars and violins even the vibration of drums
make tingles in my heart, it crawls
I don't have to know how to paint
before I love every work in a gallery, displayed
to be mesmerized by works of art
to love the hands of those who made them by heart
to applaud the history behind
That even with naive knowledge, it will be a love at first sight
Because
Loving the ocean wouldn't have to mean
I must know it all
to control the waves and to swim in the depths
where I could fall
but it makes me wonder and curious each day
to know anything i might learn, so each day i stay
Loving every writing
doesn't have to prove my illiteracy or mastery,
It won't be about how many writers I knew
Or to know how poems painted me blue
but to grasp books and collect as if not sane
fill my heart with notes and my home with papers
As I read, see my own life in a play
Loving to dance doesn't have to make me a dancer, a knower
but each day I found myself wanting to learn each steps
to know each movement,
to love each part and the beat
to learn about it all because I simply want to be part of it
My love for playing instruments
doesn't have to mean, I must know how to play as I held it
But loving is enough reason to want to know
How does guitar works? The notes of the piano?
Every sharp and flats? All majors and minors
Where does my fingers land?
Fascination with arts
Is not an announcement that i am one artist
It's not just about What it looks like on the outside
but the beauty it promised to exist
It doesn't have to be synonymous with mastery
or about how many is my visited gallery?
It's not just about what I knew about
With Patterns and paintings
But to not put a limit on what these hands could do
to be the one to create all these colors and hue
the love of something is to create, to know, to understand, to never cease to be amazed
each day loving to know something new
Loving doesn't have to mean I must know it all
I mean, I just loved
I do not have to master, to be intelligent and knowledgeable
I do not have to hold all stories, and fill this head with all histories and truths known and unknown
I do not have to know it all
but be driven to know little things each day
and to love all of it
because it's the truth you gave
I'd still love you even if I don't know
I'd still love, tirelessly, even If I don't understand
And it'll be okay if I don't know enough
Slow burn it is, I'll take all my time to learn about it each day
As I have loved
I guess it's just that loving
means I don't have to know to understand
05-06-24
Writer's Note:
The unnecessary mention of the word 'love' repetitively.
Wth. Idk anymore, I'm just publishing old drafts.
They say to be loved is to be known
But I believe otherwise
Because for me, love is present even in things that I don't know.
