The other side of love
Love brings you the serenest heights of ecstasy,
but as sometimes you must do without it
you are plunged into the depths
of most unbearable despair
and feel yourself abandoned
on a desert ocean of melancholy,
the stillness of which is the worst of all,
as you drift lonely in the universe,
just falling through the utmost emptiness
down to a bottom that does not exist
of darkness growing ever darker and more hollow.
But this melancholy is, however, just a remedy,
a medicine and balance to your trips
of love exorbitancies and love ecstasies,
and you should take it just for what it is:
the other side of paradise and any shining medal
which exists just to enhance the glory of the front,
the background darkness to lift forth the light,
the endless midnight sky of universal inaccessibility
to just add glory to the blinding light of day
and all its present swarming life of splendour,
wallowing in love to never reach an end on it.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2009-11-18 at 14:02
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