Let’s Love Each Other
love
death
lyric poem
intimate
Let’s Love Each Other - meaning Summary
Love Before Regret
The poem urges people to show affection and reconciliation before death makes them impossible. Its speaker challenges the habit of criticizing or fighting with those who are alive, then mourning and idealizing them once they are gone. By contrasting a living face with a grave marker, the poem presents love as an immediate responsibility rather than a delayed gesture of regret.
Read Complete AnalysesLet’s love each other, let’s cherish each other, my friend, before we lose each other. You’ll long for me when I’m gone. You’ll make a truce with me. So why put me on trial while I’m alive? Why adore the dead but battle the living? You’ll kiss the headstone of my grave. Look, I’m lying here still as a corpse, dead as a stone. Kiss my face instead!
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