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Seduction

Stealing forth from nowhere,
overwhelming you with mystic might,
endowing you with force and power,
irresistibility is all there is,
and all you can do is surrender
utterly completely and forever,
fooled by the delusion of eternal pleasure,
and it is indeed enjoyable enough
as long as it keeps working,
but the trouble is,
it is mortality itself,
it always must come to an end,
and all you can do is to compromise
and learn to live with love and death
together as two opposites inseparable;
and if you can manage that,
you might be able to go on
as lover after all
seductions of both love and death.

Poetry by Christian Lanciai