Is it worth it?
Why is love and sorrow
so inseparably linked
in closer intimacy with each other
than almost any other human feelings?
Must love always lead to worries without end
and sorrows without bottom,
is that really unavoidable and natural,
inevitable consequences of delights of love?
I can not answer that, but I am afraid
that in all my experience
I never had a glimpse of any contrary
to all that love resulting but in woe.
But it is beautiful, and that might be
its ultimate salvation and reward;
and of such wonder is that beauty,
that whatever woe and sorrow would be worth it,
even every pain and worry, torment and despair.
So just accept it, and go on
and follow love's course bravely
on the road to any trial and perdition,
but you will survive and be rewarded
for as long as you stay on as lover.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2010-04-18 at 10:37
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