If I Didn’t Have Your Love
If I Didn’t Have Your Love - meaning Summary
Absence Defines Devotion
The poem imagines extreme losses—darkness, desolation, a world emptied of stars, leaves, water—to show how the speaker’s sense of life depends entirely on a beloved’s love. Through repeated hypotheticals the voice insists that without this love existence would feel broken, unreal, and unhealed. The emotional center is the claim that love is what makes life real and meaningful amid otherwise void circumstances.
Read Complete AnalysesIf the sun would lose its light And we lived an endless night And there was nothing left that you could feel That's how it would be What my life would seem to me If I didn't have your love to make it real If the stars were all unpinned And a cold and bitter wind Swallowed up the world without a trace Ah, well that's where I would be What my life would seem to me If I couldn't lift the veil and see your face And if no leaves were on the tree And no water in the sea And the break of day had nothing to reveal That's how broken I would be What my life would seem to me If I didn't have your love to make it real If the sun would lose its light And we lived in an endless night And there was nothing left that you could feel If the sea were sand alone And the flowers made of stone And no one that you hurt could ever heal Well that's how broken I would be What my life would seem to me If I didn't have your love to make it real
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