Sunday, October 17, 2010

A poem i found...and i like it.

True Love

True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions but convinced
it had to happen this way - in reward for what?
For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn't it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn't they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends' sake?
Listen to them laughing - its an insult.
The language they use - deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines -
it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back!

It's hard even to guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who'd want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.


Wislawa Szymborska

2 comments:

Diane... said...

hummmmmm.......
I guess this poem wasn't a hit with anyone Jod...
at first I thought that you had writen it in an off mood!?!!


LOL!!!!

Nancy Pitney said...

I like it. Do you know what makes me sick? People who post things like "He's the love of my life", gag me! (Just because I said that, someone's going to read this and think, "I say that all the time"). Anyway, I always wonder, is there something wrong with me that I don't think my husband is the end all be all? And then I realize, no, I'm just normal. I think true love is real, and with that comes fights, disagreements and hurt sometimes. I also think that it's ok to be your own person and not have your happiness depend on someone else! Thanks for sharing!

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