A paradox conflicting
Is love and its beliefs
Sublime is logic hidden
Within emotion’s reefs
No mortal laws of physics
Bind its cruelty or its bliss
Intrinsically affixing
In emotional abyss
It gives without condition
Silent secrets in it dwell
To love a heart’s decision
Its will it does impel
It burns of passion fire
In union with the soul
It seeks to fill desire
Completeness it extols
Spawns a spirit’s feral bliss
And torrent angers rage
With evils lying kiss
Mixed love and hate betrayed
Abused it loves much harder
To gentleness reclaim
In vain becomes a martyr
And bears an unjust blame
Neglected slowly suffers
In loneliness each day
A stranger once a lover
As lives go different ways
A heart with all complexities
Loves and bears its scars
It creates a life fulfilling dreams
Or can destroy who we are
An illusion in so many ways
Intangible allure
Deep within the souls it stays
But never is secure
Copyright © 2008 Ed J