Thank you Nicholas and Joseph, for your comments.
It was the unnegotiable kind of love that caught my interest - a love that
is a kind of violence and possibly a burden to both the giver and the
receiver. Sometimes a wonderful burden, but not always. Characteristics like
'wonderful' or 'generous' weigh lightly [and ambiguously] when balanced with
the absolute no-choice inevitability of the offering.
When the hurricane blows, who cares whether it comes from east or west?
I'm thinking about elaborations and variations...
I go with the disease metaphor for love - so I see it as something which is
caught, not propagated. Once caught, if one recovers from the onslaught
perhaps one then engages in the work of propagation. But then the beast has
transformed itself and is no longer stolid love but something more
civilised.
Thank you for your thoughts,
Gillian
Gillian Savage
OZpoet -- http://www.ozpoet.asn.au <http://www.ozpoet.asn.au>
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