True love. Is it normal <br /> is it serious, is it practical? <br /> What does the world get from two people <br /> who exist in a world of their own? <br /> <br /> Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason, <br /> drawn randomly from millions but convinced <br /> it had to happen this way – in reward for what? <br /> For nothing. <br /> The light descends from nowhere. <br /> Why on these two and not on others? <br /> Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it does. <br /> Doesn’t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles, <br /> and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts. <br /> <br /> Look at the happy couple. <br /> Couldn’t they at least try to hide it, <br /> fake a little depression for their friends’ sake? <br /> Listen to them laughing – it’s an insult. <br /> The language they use – deceptively clear. <br /> And their little celebrations, rituals, <br /> the elaborate mutual routines – <br /> it’s obviously a plot behind the human race’s back! <br /> <br /> It’s hard even to guess how far things might go <br /> if people start to follow their example. <br /> What could religion and poetry count on? <br /> What would be remembered? What renounced? <br /> Who’d want to stay within bounds? <br /> <br /> True love. Is it really necessary? <br /> Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, <br /> like a scandal in Life’s highest circles. <br /> Perfectly good children are born without its help. <br /> It couldn’t populate the planet in a million years, <br /> it comes along so rarely. <br /> <br /> Let the people who never find true love <br /> keep saying that there’s no such thing. <br /> <br /> Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.<br /><br />Wislawa Szymborska<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/true-love-368/
