Who Can’t Understand It at All

You think about this
A lot. Who loves who.
Your people. Perished,
Punished, abandoned,
Privileged. All that.

Whether you once loved
A celebrity
You would never meet
And wept at the death
Which touched you as news.

Whether you were loved
By someone who was,
You see now, never
Loved by anyone
Much, including you.

Whether what love stands
Is something no one
Ought to put up with.
Whether what love stands
For means anything.

You wonder these things,
While people talk love
And sing love and write
Poems considering
Love and who gets it.