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vagrant moss
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It sounds a bit like a message, like a self-help message. I would perhaps change the first verse to a question "Do you know what love is?" and make it more like a conversation.

To give you an example, listen to Ella Fitzgerald's "Lonely Is". She starts with a provocative rethorical question and moves to define loneliness with very concrete but surprising images:
"Do you really wanna know what lonely is?
Ask a question, I know"
(...)
"Lonely is a telephone used as a paperwheight"

vagrant moss
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I think so! To help you reflect a little more about your poem and yourself: why do you use nature to describe love? There is no human figure in your metaphors. If love is such a human feeling, why these images? Don't get me wrong, I like them, it is just that it sounds like a God's love or a love for the world (contemplation), rather than the love for a partner or fellow human. Why did you pick them?