Love's Complexity Made Simple

We learn it from puppy licks
And kitten purrs
From bird bath chirps
And bedtime hugs

We test it with raging hormone safaris
Stalking its elusive coupling
Enigmas we thought familiar
Now but jesters in our youthful courts

We come to know its quintessence
By accepting the disappointment of lies
The 4 alarm fires of the heart
Flooded by ducts of tear-laden flow

Courage is born
As the sun awakens moments anew
Where hope and expectation
Patiently await destiny

Growing feelings once so simple
Now of experience hard fought
Embrace the unattached heart of being
That state of mind
Without need of anchor
A simple complexity
The inner passage

Of love’s essence
Forever oscillating

Between heart and mind