Love Is That Holiday Destination

~ Frank Solanki

Love is that holiday destination
Which flashes before your eyes
As soon as you open your social media accounts
Because that is where
Your friends seem to be going
Your neighbours seem to be heading, again (only this time with their kids)
Your colleagues have planned to go
And they are all posting exquisite pictures of themselves and that place all the time
You cannot avoid it
How long can you shun social media?
You must go there and see it with your own eyes
Experience it with your own body
Breathe it with your lungs
Taste it with your tongue
And so you check your schedule
Fix a date
Make the reservations
Book the tickets
Off you go to scratch that itch

When you land there
What do you see?
A deserted landscape
Nobody but you
You wonder if it is the right place
You check your phone and confirm so
Why, then, is nobody else in sight
Then a drop falls on your hand
Then another, and another
You turn to look up
And see dark clouds gathering overhead
A storm is brewing
Now you know

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21 thoughts on “Love Is That Holiday Destination”

  3. Brilliant write. 😃 Yep, don’t believe the sunny advert. More often than not love is…
    learning to dance in the rain.🥲😅

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  4. Imagine now, in the future, someone will find this poem and will say, look, this is vintage. 🙂 Progress is not just here; it is stepping on our throats. While it steps away, we try to get a moment to breathe; then it steps on us again.

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  8. I like your “Love is ____” poems, and this one is no exception. Yep, going to a destination is much fuller and deeper and richer than seeing the place on social media. But when rain falls when you’re on vacation… well, I suppose you can go inside and write poetry or look at social media 🙂

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