207. The desperate lover
He came to me dissolved in desperation.
"No, I can not stand it any more!
I will no more be treated so by any lady!"
"What is then the matter? What has happened?"
"They just drive me nuts!" "But who?"
"The ladies! Who else is so cruel and merciless
but all the other other hopeless mad indecent and revolting sex!"
"What have they done then? Is it more than one?"
"One is more than enough!" I tried to soothe him.
"Tell me now, what has she done to you?"
"She just keeps doing nothing! She is never there,
she gives her word but never keeps it, she forgets her promises,
she says one thing but does the opposite, she never keeps appointments,
and she goes to bed with anyone but me!"
"I see," said I, "so you are jealous? Have you any proof of her unfaithfulness?"
"It is enough for me to see her being fondled by her friends,
her girl friends and her lovers and the whole world,
while I am the only one to treat her decently!"
"And since the whole world loves her and debases her,
you are frustrated as her only true and decent lover and avoid her?"
"Naturally, yes!" "My friend, you are completely lovesick."
"Yes, of course! That is the problem! And I can not stand it any longer!
She is so completely unreliable!" "My friend, you are not first in history
to find out love is not a stable thing. What will you do?"
"That is what I am asking you! What shall I do?"
"You love her. That is all your trouble. Stay out of your love,
forgo her, or continue suffering. That is your only choice."
"But why must love be so humiliating and give so much suffering?"
"My friend, that is the question which no lover ever had an answer to."
And I went back to work, preferring to stay out of any trouble
with frustrated lovers angry with each other.
When love leads to jealousy it is no longer love but only egoism,
which can drive any lover out of love to any madness.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-09-19 at 10:08
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