Thursday, June 30, 2011

On Love - A Poem (of sorts)

1)   It starts out with a conscious choice to forget.

After a few days you realize it is a fairly useless

act. At that point you can embrace the emotions

and memories that have weighed the spirit down 

or continue to shun them and risk further turmoil

in yourself. The heart and mind know the high 

cost these feelings and memories can exert on the

present. In the interest of self-preservation you'll

come to a moment of balance, a peace that you 

struggled against until finally relenting. 


2)   It is often hard for me to follow my own advice.

There are faces I see in familiar places that haunt me

still. 


3)   Love: we crave it deeply and when we feel it 

missing from our lives lament its absence and vow 

anything to gain its return.


4)   To know love even for a brief moment is enough

sometimes to continue onward. Safe in the knowledge 

such a wondrous thing came to be for such a brief

instant.


5)   The loss of love can be one of the events in life 

that can reshape the course of ones existence. The same

holds true for its finding.


6)   It is possible to live without love though almost all

of us would prefer not to. 


7)   We are far more interdependently connected than

we can admit or see.


8)   Hearts burn in both absence and unrequited desire.


9)   Love can be found even in the attempts we make to

created a needed distance.


10)  Whether or not one subscribes to the idea of religion

and the world of the unseen and beyond, Love would be

enough in itself to justify our existence in this world.

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