Love.........
What is Love?
What is this thing called love?
What is this emotion man is saddled with by nature?
What is this feeling that destroys and heals man's heart?
What might I call this feeling which hurts my soul?
This feeling though unrequited which is not understood.
For once hath thou poured out thy heart in tears
With pleas that ye may not be one day a past memory
Did I summon all strength that I may not disappoint you
Of great comfort and a peace of mind hath you been
Yet thou torture me with sadness and a crazed mind
Did I all things to forever make you happy
Yet with such generosity you pay me back with such gloom
To what shall it profit a man if he loves his wife but loses her love?
What is this disease which carts away my reasoning?
Ovid advices me to cure this disease by going on journeys
But though I suffer from this affliction
I do not want to be cured of this ailment
For the one I love is my life
And if I be cured of this sickness
Doth marks the end of my life
And I dissolve into the dust from which I came
And my soul shall forever roam the earth
For I die not of a natural cause
But I am murdered
Hand in hand by my lover and her accomplice love
And ask
What is this merciless thing called love?
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INSOMNIA
PoetryDolor refers to the feeling of sadness. X is about Malcolm X and the fight against oppression of black people. Necessitudo finita means 'this is the end of our union'.
