“Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.”
― Paulo Coelho
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Love is a Lawless Land
Char-burnt ground banking
Rivers running backwards
Verdant trees descending
From the skies
Pools of eyes seeing the
World from the outside in
Love is a lawless land
This is the country where decrees
Come to die
Where regulations rot in
Fallow ground
Your heart will betray you here
Leading you down a trail
Unintended
The seemingly secure firmament
Beneath your feet will rend and gape,
Swallow your form whole
Hot winds will suddenly
Blow cold with
Sunny skies sliding into
Storms,
As comfort and joy
Transform
Into sorrow and despair, for
Love is a lawless land,
And only those who take
A stand
Will withstand its bruising blows
Forget the rules you’ve long been
Taught,
It turns out their all for
Naught,
Selling the lie of control and
Contrived destinations
Truth is, you’ll just fall prey to
Its sly machinations
And drown as you attempt to
Steer its ship
The only way to make this
Trip
Is to let its rushing river
Take you
Toss you
Run you over its rapids and
Hurl you ‘round its bends
For its only end is
The love itself
Whether bidden or not,
Convenient or not
Sanctioned or not, for
Love is a lawless land
There are no lifeguards
Here
No lifejackets
No life-preservers
Here
We swim at the mercy
Of its terrible sea
Its mawing jaws threatening
At our feet
No foghorns sound,
No lighthouses shine,
Here the whine of its wind
Will desiccate your skin
And leave it flayed in
Ribbons about your soul
So beware ‘ere you go,
Of following fancies down
Flowered waysides,
The upside may not be
What you think, or plan
Throw out your guidebook and
Give up your oars,
For here be dragons,
Ready to burn you to ash
Along with the maps you
Thought you’d rely on
Only lawbreakers survive
Its onslaught intact because
Rules are the food of fools
For truthfully,
I tell you that
Love is a lawless land
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‘Nuff said.