Love...

Love is beautiful they say Love is pure and champagne-sweet Love is strawberries dipped in chocolate Love is holding hands Palms pressed flesh to flesh Love is gazing into each other’s eyes Without feeling the need to blink Love is tattooing the name of your lover on your skin In bold and permanent black ink What they do not tell you is that Love has two faces Two origins in Heaven and Hell; It dwells in both those places For Love is not just a beautiful sonnet It is a screaming crescendo of caterwauling souls It is a bright full moon and the black night cradling it Love is the flower and the snake beneath Love is poison and poison’s antidote Love is a bloody dagger sheathed in a blood-red rose Love is the most exquisite pain The cruelest of unfathomable joys… If you seek it you will never find it But if you sit still and sink into despair Like a unicorn laying his head in a virgin’s lap… Love will creep up and find you there…