Rivals
I never was much for a love fight,
always giving up at once
as soon as there were rivals,
not from cowardice, but principally:
love must never be contaminated by brute force,
since any kind of violence is just the opposite
of any kind of love, especially true love.
So let me rather love in silence at a distance
faithfully forever with the most reliable of loyalty
than get involved with fisticuffs, upsetting rivalry,
the animal vulgarity of sexual force,
that only would destroy the whole idea of love
which only can survive as long as it can be preserved
in intact purity of honest truth.
Poetry by Christian Lanciai
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Written on 2007-09-11 at 19:35
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