Shedding of Performance Charts

Ever since the times of enlightenment obfuscating harmonious balance Romantic love has taken a back seat in the absurd theatre of minds My light my mind my empathy bonds and my unconditional passion have been shrouded in darkness have tainted romance and creation Empiricism from the age of so called reason certainly towers over inclinations and feelings burrows deeply and undermines emotions Ever since Freud investigated libido and death wish attempted to establish a science from Id’s superb battle with Ego and Oedipus separated phallus and **** retention from sucking up oral tradition we have been seduced by scientific dogma and lust for the vice of logic Like Mephistopheles debating a Faustian pact with layers of devil we pay tribute to Descartes who doubted his incredulous doubts The clever guys investigate Philia measure orgasms and pleasure take delight in quantifying empathy bonds hail to measurability In perverse contradictions to faith and belief even Agape has been turned and tossed over on spread sheets excelling in proof beyond reasonable qualms Call me ancient and backward and taint me with the label of idealism pour tar over my feathers hang me quarter me and try to remove my heart Yet here it stands tall in celebration and without schism of ambivalence transcends into every aspect of life and peace loving kindness’ compassion Let me call it romance and pure love apart from sex and carnal desires and let it be known that those amorous French guys in vernacular fashion defined it as 'verse narrative' alluded to stories from creative excitement I love you my lover and friendships adore my children like to be playful seek kind connections and empathy do not discount altruism as a ruse But I have this relationship with books emerge from ex libri in fancy and art They are friends dear to my soul they talk to me evoke the whole palette of stretching my life on a canvass of marvellous beauty and fascination and when I engage with words and with pages they start to listen to my love Charted performance has little place in my essence whereas reading enchants me envelops and embraces my spirits makes me whole and can’t tear me apart