Love languages Poem - Skylar Grimme

In this poetry podcast, Skylar Grimmie explores a poem called "Love Languages" by Madeline. The poem discusses the five love languages and how the speaker feels that their love is not reciprocated. The speaker mentions doing things for the person they love, but feeling unappreciated. The poem uses enjambment and repetition to convey these emotions. Skylar relates to the poem and expresses how they have experienced similar situations in their own life. The podcast ends with a thank you to the listeners. Hello, and thank you so much for listening to my poetry podcast. My name is Skylar Grimmie, and today I'm going to be exploring a poem by a woman named Madeline called Love Languages. This poem was published in 2017. So let's begin. Love Languages. There are five love languages I am fluent. In you, you can never speak. Number one, words of affirmation. I never stopped affirming. You matter. I believe in you. You can never accept. Number two, acts of service. When you were hungry, I gave you food. But when I was starving for your love, you can never feed me. Number three, receiving gifts. For me, you received the dancing bears for your coldest nights. You can never wear it. Number four, quality time. In our time together, you were giving my undivided attention. You can never attend. Number five, physical touch. I gave you my heart, my body selflessly, unconditionally. You can never touch me. If there are five love languages, I am Chomsky. In you, you can never speak. So first, I wanted to mention Chomsky. When I first read this poem, I had no idea what or who Chomsky was. Chomsky is credited with revolutionizing the linguistic field by introducing the Chomsky hierarchy, generative grammar, and the concept of a universal grammar, which underlines all human speech and is based in the inner structure of the mind slash brain. So in this poem, I noticed some enjambment, meaning the poetry lines are from one to the next with no punctuation to indicate a stop. I also noticed repetition at the end of each, at the end of each stanza, the words, you can never. She mentions how she did all these things for this person but talks about how they could never measure up to the amount of love that she gives. This poem to me is about loving someone but feeling that the love is not reciprocated back. When I first read this poem, it honestly made me feel sad for the writer. I can only imagine that she wrote this poem in a time of sadness, trying to express how she felt to someone but not being able to find the right words to tell them. I understand her, I feel her, and I get her. There have been so many times where I do something for someone and they take that for granted. I'm talking family, friends, boyfriends, etc. All things people. Loving someone can be so easy, yet so hard. It's in my nature to treat people with love, and when they don't do the same, I just keep loving until that love turns to dislike or hate. I try my hardest to tell people when I'm not feeling loved, and it is up to them if they decide to work on that or not try at all. A gift and curse of mine is that I will love someone until they hate me for it. Thank you so much for tuning into my poetry podcast. I hope you enjoyed.