I think whoever said that has never truly been in love.
I think a great love...a once in a life-time love...is like a furnace. When the right elements combine - it roars into life, building to such blinding magnificence that it's impossible to look directly at it. It's a thing of beauty but it's also a thing of indescribably delicate balance.
Love is born of the same unquenchable power that drives the universe. Two particles - thrown together to become greater than the sum of their parts. Lovers spiral in the heart of this destruction but instead of being consumed, they thrive. Cosmic entities destined to dance in perfect harmony.
Sadly, nothing in this universe remains the same. Stars explode, galaxies collide, planets stop spinning and love falls apart. Hearts are often tipped out of balance by such tiny things that the ensuing separation is inconceivable, but it happens. Sometimes this parting is peaceful, mostly not. Often the lovers are blown apart by the fury of their own existence. The furnace begins to cool and layers of:anger, disappointment, betrayal, deceit, envy, bitterness, resentment and amnesia, begin to form crusts over what was once molten-ardor.
Unlike the dead, love never truly goes cold. Deep in that solid block of hurt lives a fundamental element unique to the human condition...hope.
No matter how bitter and twisted we may end up...there is always hope...it's what makes that one great love...immortal.
Wow! Don't know what to say! I had to read if twice; such a beautiful way of describing this. Powerful!
ReplyDeleteIm a big old softy when it comes to love. There is nothing more magical.
DeleteNice way of looking at it, Squid! Great image, too.
ReplyDeleteI loved it too. Such sadness in her eyes but the paint of happiness lightly over it. It was that which reminded me of the feeling after a love affair ends
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