Eros, Love, and Life

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The Bottom Line That love and the expressions that go with it- words, deeds, gifts and caring, performance- is the core and reason for man's existence.

Mystifying, this eros thing
it feeds in the heart
but alien to it
undoing, overcoming
like darkness over
the golden horizons
light over nightshadows
rising tide over shifting, dry sands.

A smile exuded, touch conveyed
desires, feelings unfolded
unravelled like falling petals
and leaves freed
but severed from life-source
to golden hues
to nature's tomb
ensued to dust blown
by the wind.

Consuming paradox this
passion- a delicious surrender
a.k.a. love posturings
in myriad masks
measured in human terms
and angels' and divine
a look, touch, embrace
tender assuring words
culminating in countless
orgasms- the fool's ebullience
akin to summer raindrops
on petals and grass, eons- starved
as mother earth nurturing
entombing all
that cleave to her bosom.

Enthralling, mysterious but arduous
this lovepath, the unknown
man has to tread
on coals of fire
in Everest's rocks of ice.


On love or semblance of it
man makes his first step
whisper his last word
muster his deathgasps

Discerning that love is life
that life is nothing but love
that everything
anything a man does
is an expression
a locution of love
or the absence of it.

Donald A. Danlag

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