Love Like a Wound....

[Sparky Kronkite]

Love Hurts - that old Nazereth tune....

Our discussions of yesterday (at least the ones I was involved with) ran a theme of love, hate, jealousy and physical sex zones. All of you had interesting additions to these discussions. So, for lack of coming up with a more interesting topic than that, I submit a poem (a lyric really) for your perusal - and hoped for enjoyment and comment.

LOVE LIKE A WOUND -

I love you like a gun shot wound
Torn right through my chest

I love you like a clown festooned
Adorned at my behest
You daily make me mad
Yet I lust for your sweet soul
At night I yearn for your caress
Though I find you oh so droll

You ridicule and mock me
With your Cheshire fucking grin
Your vanity precedes you
And my patience's wearing thin

You suck the life from my life
All you touch seems to decay
Yet I find you so fascinating
I will love you every day

I love you like pain
So severe it racks my brain

I love you as I love myself
That at least, is my feeble aim

I love you like a clown festooned
Adorned at my behest
I love you like a gun shot wound
Torn right through my chest

 

[Boo]

The modern medical term for love like that is co-dependency and it is considered unhealthy.

Boo

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Don't know much about medics...

But I do know that love like this is very bad.

True Story -

Not long ago we met another couple through our swinging circles, seemed together at first (yet she did seem a bit anorexic) we had a drink or two with them. They hosted parties at their large brown stone apartment in Brooklyn - supposed to be very fun - but we never made one because of logistics. Oh well.

But the guy kept in touch via e-mail - he told me that he had "conditioned" (but I don't think that's the proper word) his wife/partner to achieve "endless release." Or, I guess(?)perpetual orgasms. Not one after the other - one long, continuous orgasm, for hours on end - until I presume she passed out. Well, we eventually lost touch. But recently we hooked back up and he tells me that they were splitsville - that she was mentally unfit - that "she had demanded" the apparent degradation that he once inflicted upon her - and that she had withered further in her anorexic state. Man!!! What a freaking bummer!!!

Love can hurt, especially when one is pre-disposed to that kind of pain.

Not for me/us.

 

[CreamyLady]

Codependency aside, there is a very real pain built into love, and that is eventual loss. At some point, sooner or later, the loved one will be gone.

However prepared, however independent one is in a relationship, that loss is going to leave a painful wound.

Of course, this is where strength and hope come in: the hope that the day is far off, and the strength to carry on.