Kafain Emmanuel Mbeng

Even Love Can Hurt You Kafain Emmanuel Mbeng

Even Love Can Hurt You is a romantic fiction story based on impersonalized emotional feelings ..." that burned, and hurt, and stole away all pride in the ability to love and to cherish that love ... with wishes of a fantastic rejuvenation, blemishing from a heart so deeply wounded to blame ...". The story reflects personal and impersonal real life experiences. All illustrations have been dramatized to provide a humorous background of exciting entertainment that would leave each and every reader wondering how a new kid on the block could be so amazingly thrilling. The piece explores the wonders of love with respect to emotional syndromes from particular reflexes on romantic and other socially hurtful feelings. Most facts have been intentionally distorted, and in most cases unconditionally dramatized. All names of characters have been made up, with little or no prejudice used to project the characterizations and roles. The story attempts to psychologically analyze real life situations in which people, in one way or the other, get hurt because they claim somehow to be in love. It emphasizes the fact that even love could be hurtful depending on the circumstances underlying the actions of the parties concerned. Sally, the story's protagonist feels extremely hurt when she comes home from work one day only to discover that her husband had walked out on her. She expressed her hurt in a poem in which she describes how her eyes were filled with tears when she stared at their "legitimate bond" Her ignorance drove her to seclude herself from all glorious fantasies - an isolation that caused her much emotional pain that burned, and hurt, and stole away all pride in her ability to love and to cherish that love. In despair ofher hurtful feelings, Sally expresses a desire for their love to stay the way it was, or should have been; and declares that his victory over her will ever be wrong. On his part, Rick breaks his silence in a poem to his friend saying, "silence" was a weapon