Love’s Nomadic Passion
How nomadic this passion
wanting little of settlement,
longing to be free,
but shallow of the way.
How anxious this focus of pleasure,
its gallop past desolate plain
in search of mountainous missions
where reward is often times vain.
How discordant the disappointment.
But onward Love pushes,
often traversing virulent mountains of hope,
seeking a perfection oft nonexistent.
Love finds instead a blindness into clouds ,
rendering white-outs from reality,
where alone with self-worth,
allusions usher in disdain.
Such is the playful enigma,
sometimes finding contentment idle,
preferring instead a hunter's flurry,
the conquest of possession,
the entrapment of trophy.
How forgiving the mirror within,
where Love seeks not the fixed-ropes of security ,
nor the attachment of object ,
but merely respect of inner-reflection's embrace,
acceptance of reciprocal compassion within.
How beautiful the ragged savagery,
Love's worn, yet indomitable resolve ,
questing beyond mere humankind's summits,
seeking landscapes made walkable within
where caress and gentle footsteps
make needless one's whip and spur delusion.
Love ya!
Jane
As I read this very poetic and romantic view of love, I am reminded of the selfish gene, operating at the base level of the DNA in all of us. The trick of nature that draws us in to the real need to find coupling with someone of very strong genetic background, usually someone of social or cultural difference to mate with. And like most male mammals, hoping to impregnate as many females as possible to increase the genetic pool in favor of the one doing it.
Hence the conflict, the short duration of many relationships that cannot cope with differences which make them genetically stronger but less compatible as partners in raising the results of their passion.
Ron