Defining and redefining love: A poem 

How do we discover the addenda of a previous lifetime, 

a footnote of similitude manifesting in an umbrage; 

the seeming womb; that we then so spontaneously 

find it recurring in our break and breath of life. The first cry of 

a mortal pining for something! Have we a memory of 

the objectification of love like a divine recall, rather than  

the object of it(?), so that in a mortal assumption the  

objectification and the object become enmeshed in a  

reality of relationships. In our youth, we discover that the 

pining goes beyond parental or sibling necessity to a 

besotment with infatuation when we look out in obsessive 

but innocent wander! Can love be defined by such carnal  

innocence? So, love be defined in its objects of attraction. 

How pure is it when it ceases to be mother and father; or 

does the subsequent peerage become prevalent out of 

disillusionment with homegrown empathy. What can be  

called the contents of discontentment that prompt such pining? Do we even  

break with peerage that replaced family with the need to get started 

on another family? And does being parented echo in the 

spontaneity to parent? Love flows like a light that needs a  

continuity of espousal; so that when we fail at one thing, we tend 

to graduate to another! When do we eschew of something so 

intricate that we identify it without defining it? Is it when we are 

absolutely shattered that the idea of it becomes a gross  

cynicism or even an utter abhorrence? Or do some of us attain 

the self-awareness of Empaths, where love no longer need be a  

conflagration as we divest of passion or pursuit and make love  

a secret subtlety of universality or an admission in symbolic sage-like 

sagacity, indulging in a celibacy of reflective nurturing and nourishing;  

making love the subject of its pure ascendant in immortality with  

the understanding that the conflict of love can be entirely left behind in its 

biosphere of attachments and the idea of both the objectification  

and the object of pure love be found in the luminosity of eternity! 

Published by montecyril

Hi, I am Monte Cyril Rodrigues and live in Melbourne, Australia. I am a retired journalist. I have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. I've had voices and visions all my life. I think it is a spiritual experience, my doctors think otherwise. I am a deeply spiritual person and keep having experiences with otherworldly realms.

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