To Love is to Suffer

By Elle Mitchell (@elmitchell_)

To love you is to ache—

a quiet, unshakable hurt,

a fire I never learned to put out.

Because love is not soft hands and easy days,

not a gentle tide that leaves no wreckage behind.

Love is suffering,

and I have suffered beautifully for you.

Elle is a student from Melbourne, Australia with a deep love for classic literature. Her poems often feature ideas of love, loss and the human condition, taking inspiration from authors such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Osamu Dazai and Edgar Allen Poe.