Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Love, the Great Equalizer


"All is fair in Love and War, " so we often quote. War is a terrible equalizer that brings fear, sufferings and bereavements but love....Love is the great equalizer, that brings joy to the heart, mind and soul. Love encompasses everything that is sweet, patient and kind and never indulges in the faults of the loved one but embraces everything with tolerance, kindness and patience always believing in the uplifting of the spirits and hearts that are broken...love stands when all else has fallen....love remains when all else has gone.


somewhere i have never traveled,
gladly beyond
any experience,
your eyes have their silence:

in your most frail gesture
are things which enclose me,

or which i cannot touch
because they are too near

your slightest look
easily will unclose me

though i have closed myself
as fingers
you open always
petal by petal
myself as Spring opens

(touching skilfully,mysteriously)
her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,
i and
my life will
shut very beautifully,suddenly,

as when the heart of this flower
imagines
the snow carefully
everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive
in this world
equals
the power
of your intense fragility:
whose texture
compels me
with the colour of its countries,

rendering death
and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you
that closes
and opens;
only something in me understands

the voice of your eyes
is deeper than all roses)

nobody,not even the rain,
has such small hands.


e.e.cummings