A friend emails, half jokingly,
Is love obsolete?
I bristle.
After all, life isn’t just about evading bioweapons
and saving the world from massive evil.
I answer.
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You ask,
is love obsolete?
Is love obsolete?
Not on this street,
not in this lifetime,
not in this lifeline
Is love obsolete?
Are feet obsolete?
Are treats obsolete?
Is life obsolete?
Is love obsolete?
Obscene, the suggestion -
though most live
with just the suggestion of love
What a question -
is love obsolete?
Has it ever been the right time,
has it ever been that love is fine,
that love flourishes
Not just something we visit,
like tourists visit the museum
Yes that's the famous Mona Lisa
Yes that's the naked David
Yes ... that's love,
I think there behind the Etruscan caskets
And why are you asking,
is love obsolete?
Love isn't easy,
it flows underground,
it's dammed and jammed
and held down by angers and grudges
hard old sludge that won't budge
But is love obsolete?
Easy to defeat love
easy to treat it as debris underfoot
easy to bury love
not easy to hurry love
But is love obsolete?
Misplaced, more likely
Misguided, untended
Unwatered, unmended
Misplaced and derided
Untended, unkempt
Like an old drunk
Who ever would have thought
at seventeen
of love like an old drunk
untended, unkempt
instead of a god to revere
No, love's not obsolete
It's just sometimes obscenely hard to love well
Elsa
Feb 14, 2011
A tragedy - that so many of us find it hard to love well, often live with just the suggestion of love. Lots of other tragedies - like that according to a study I came across, one-third of Americans wake up depressed - and like that millions upon millions are, in many ways, mind-controlled and have taken injections where there was evidence, months before the injections were rolled out, that they could not be for our benefit.
Many tragedies.
But is love obsolete? Not in a million years. In a million ways it’s not obsolete.
In a couple of days, I’ll be back to dealing with stuff like ponerology (the study of the roots of evil), plus potential ways of dealing with it effectively.
Now a short pause, a bit of time for the everyday world of love and lack of love.
Tomorrow, slowly getting back to dealing with what we’re facing, I’ll look further ahead: what’s our vision of the world as we’d like it to be.
In the meantime, here’s the poem online:
https://www.elsas-word-story-image-idea-music-emporium.com/poem-about-love.html
Posted March 1, 2023
Very nice post!
Life is the miracle of love....and love is a miracle of life. From you friendly pure blood
Have you ever, in your ponerological studies, studied (the emotional concept of nothing)? I believe this to be the one When this concept is discarded love rushes in