an effort for a discourse on a most dispersive subject
They count to twelve,
those who think love's ingredients can be counted,
but love is out of accountability.
The ingredients are not to be summarized
nor even identified, since they are too many
and far too variable to be more than faintly discerned.
You can not pin love down or analyze it.
You can only live it.
Once you're there, inside it living it,
you are on the right path and know something,
and then it's just for you to move on,
continue living it in whatever way,
the easiest way being with sex,
the most difficult way being without sex,
but that is more of a challenge.
You can even live it with sex but without sex,
if you see what I mean, which perhaps is difficult,
but what I mean is simply, that the love you live
must be within you and at the same time
completely comprise the person you love –
and that is maybe the basic ingredient of love:
it must be all or nothing.
If you have it all, you have all to give,
and then it's just to go on spending,
giving, beaming, spurting forth
and generously expand your love
without any end to your experience of it,
since love works by constantly renewing itself,
and therefore love is life neverdying.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2006-12-01 at 10:25
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Some ingredients of love – for Coolaaron's challenge
They count to twelve,
those who think love's ingredients can be counted,
but love is out of accountability.
The ingredients are not to be summarized
nor even identified, since they are too many
and far too variable to be more than faintly discerned.
You can not pin love down or analyze it.
You can only live it.
Once you're there, inside it living it,
you are on the right path and know something,
and then it's just for you to move on,
continue living it in whatever way,
the easiest way being with sex,
the most difficult way being without sex,
but that is more of a challenge.
You can even live it with sex but without sex,
if you see what I mean, which perhaps is difficult,
but what I mean is simply, that the love you live
must be within you and at the same time
completely comprise the person you love –
and that is maybe the basic ingredient of love:
it must be all or nothing.
If you have it all, you have all to give,
and then it's just to go on spending,
giving, beaming, spurting forth
and generously expand your love
without any end to your experience of it,
since love works by constantly renewing itself,
and therefore love is life neverdying.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
Read 701 times
Written on 2006-12-01 at 10:25
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