Love?

by

Chris Lahren

Open up your arms and spread some of your infectious laughter....
we contain bottles of wine inside our hearts to open on occasions like this.
We're not afraid to tell the truth...not afraid to understand.

And the crossroads of our intertwined lace of love, that word...
much too overused as if it were void of content.
It's a word that's not easily understood yet overdefined,
it's full of contrived fictions and an endless topic of lyrical wisdom.

It seems as if those that have the worst time with it are those
that sing and write as if they know precisely what it is.

Does it even exist? Is it equal to God?
It seems as if it's an anchor, continually tugging the few tragic
souls that feel it down to the bottom to be lost forever in the abyss somewhere.
Whatever it really is, it's caused alot of pain...violence, shame, and devastation.

Does it control all action? Is it merely an evolutionary function...tricking us into reproduction?
Survival of the specious...those with the strongest love will subsist.
If that's the case, animals must feel it...right down to the cockroach hotels we despise.

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NEXT?
Why don't you look at Meu Desejo
by: Lisa Hachey
from: Calgary, AB, CA

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