Two ways of love
Love works not just in two waysbut in many ways bilaterally,
as you usually are loved as much
as you yourself keep burning out of love;
but you are seldom loved the same way
as you send and spend and feel your own love.
How it works between the two of us
is just a perfectly original example out of many.
Your love is a careful generosity of softest kindness,
warm and tender and considerate in its humility,
while I am far too passionate and wild in temper,
difficult to handle, reach and understand,
a kind of demon that can not be tamed or tempered
but must have her freedom and her own life
unrestrictedly in order to exist and live at all.
Yes, we are opposites, but therefore work so well
together, both in intimacy and at any distance,
my satanic depth and abyss neutralizing and enriching,
complementing your serenity and creativity,
as thunderstorms and heavy rains are needed
to make deserts turn to some fertility and bloom.
Poetry by Laila Roth
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Written on 2017-06-25 at 23:57
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