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?   Love  ?

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The true lover NEVER gets hurt !!

( this we all know !!)

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THE PAIN  

( which we talk of so incessantly and childishly )

ALWAYS comes back upon the false lover

And is felt ONLY by the false lover !!

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THE DENIAL OF THIS OBVIOUS FACT

IS THE ESSENCE OF THE POEMS

ON HELLO POETRY

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what is called LOVE here

Is merely POSSESSIVE INDULGENCE

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The REAL FEAR  that we have is of

Actually BEING LOVED

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For in the LIGHT of the TRUTH OF LOVE

all our games are exposed and we are simply

Left standing in the existential terror

That is our society

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We mask this actual terror by

Playing the GAME presented

And playing it with such RELIGIOUS ZEAL

that it tends to temporarily

Protect us from the knowledge

Of our EXTREME VULNERABILITY

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the results are disasterous

we sink farther and farther into

Depression

And play the GAME more intently

To ease the shame

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We should change the story !

We should make it ours !

We should LIVE !

WE MAY SURVIVE