tHe LoOk...

The poem by Sara Teasdale, “The Look” is quite intriguing and very challenging. I can rally think of nothing at first, but when I tried to read it over and over again, I began to picture out what the poem’s impact was on me.

In the lines, “Strephon kissed me in the spring; Robin in the fall, But Colin only looked at me and never kissed at all.” I have felt that the lady in the poem has been through the arms of different guys. And every time she is with these guys, they all do the same thing. For her, men are all the same. For them to show that they love her, they would kiss her or make her feel the very same thing and eventually gets lost in the wind. But then, when she knew Colin, he was different. He’s not like any other guys. He respected her and for her being a woman, and did not took advantage of her. He just stood by her and loved her for who she is and never left her.

On next stanza, “Strephon's kiss was lost in jest, Robin's lost in play, But the kiss in Colin's eyes, Haunts me night and day.” I can feel that she has proved to herself that those guys that passed through her life were there just to be with her and not really loves her.

But Colin was different, he has showed a different kind of love that really struck her and really changed her life.

It is like in our lives, realistically speaking; sometimes we think that the guy who courts us and makes us feel special is automatically the right one. Without even having the chance of getting to know that person better and really figuring out if he is serious with you and if what he says is really the truth.

Sometimes, we think that he is really the one without even confirming it to our hearts. That’s one good lesson I have learned throughout my 16 years of existence here in this world, and that is to not easily be fooled by the sweet words that comes out of the guy’s mouth because sometimes, those words are spoken by the lips and not by heart.

We must not automatically be fooled by their sweet actions because they could always do that to anybody else.

There would always be someone who will come in to our lives and show us that they are different without doing what is the typical thing that other men do. That person is really who we are looking for. We just have to be patient enough in waiting for the right moment to come and be prepared of the possible things that would happen.

For sure, if Cupid’s bow is struck on you, you can’t help it but eventually fall. But if that time comes, just be sure that you are ready to handle the relationship since being committed to someone is not a game that you can play around with.