Perfect Love

"Love The Way You Lie." The title is a question in its self. This song by Eminem ft. Rihanna, adds a few wrinkles to my forehead. I thought, what in the world can she mean by "Love the way you lie?" At first, I automatically loved the song just from the way it sounded, and because of how my favorite male rapper was one of the singers in it. But then I started to really listen. And as I started listening more and more deeper into the words of the song, I became more interested in learning the real meaning of this intriguing song. Or at least my opinion of the real meaning.


I hear love hidden behind both voices. His is a frustrated love, while hers is a more exhausted love. Their abusive love-hate relationship has almost become more of a routine. A vicious cycle that neither of them can stand, but can't live without. He promises her that he loves her, and will try to do better. To not lose his mind to his temper and hit her again. But then he contradicts that, by saying that he knows what he's claiming he wont do anymore, is just a lie. He lies to keep her, to keep the love they share alive. Its almost like the way he cares for her is by lying. Maybe she knows this, and for that reason, she loves the way he lies.

At first, someone might see their relationship as pointless. How can a person harm the person they love like that? Although they clash with each other, they both share the strife to keep their unhealthy relationship going. In the song, Eminem says, "...When a tornado meets a volcano..." They both have tempers they can't control, that causes damage to their relationship. They're just alike. Maybe since their not opposites they don't attract. Or maybe, since they're so alike, they're too perfect for each other, to where it hurts.

Its astonishing what people will do for love. Even when its not that "perfect love." Everyone has a need for someone to love them, and make them complete. Everyone can judge someone else's relationship by what they see and hear, but if your not actually in it, you wouldn't know how strong it truly is. Through someone else's eyes, the love they share might not look so great. But through their eyes, it might just be that "perfect love."
       
     

introductory paragraph assignment

         In the poem "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes the speaker's resentful optimism shows his bitterness  towards the way he is treated but his confidence in that some day he will be treated equally. Even though the speaker is mistreated now, because of his color, he knows if he tries hard enough that he will soon come out on top. He puts what everyone else sees him as behind him, because he knows they'll be ashamed once they see whats coming.

                                                                                                                                                          - Tabitha