Love

A force, a plea

    a sacrifice and a profiteer…

Unwilling to be enslaved, resentful of rules

   Chiding the afflicted with guiles and truths

Cause of wars and of celebrations

A passion and decimation

   a virtue and vice

Harbinger of listlessness and of malice

Pursuer of unending conflicts, usherer of bliss

An emotion and enervation

    Sustaining jealousy, greed and lust

Companion to wanderlust, vanity and wine

Self-serving, possessive and parochial

Privy to dark deeds of incest and worship

A dream, a disenchantment

     a construct and an inspiration

You are beyond knowledge, beyond being

The soul of every living soul

      manifest as the plunderer and pioneer

      as the ascetic and politician

Spewing oracles and treatises through the centuries

      Your conquests belittles history!

An elegance, a lewdness

       a searing wound and grace

In acquisition you infuse disillusion

In loss you enforce victory

          Monstrous, Myriad and Mystical

Always an unrelenting chronicle.

A G K

16 October, 2014