By Mojave (email: mojave7299@yahoo.com)
Date: 8 March 2000

(Wisdom comes in strange packages. This isn't one of them.)

Love is metaphysical
        misery,
        Zen torture...
To love is to give up completely--
        give up even thoughts of
        giving up.
Love is jumping out of the plane
        and trusting that the chute
        will open--
        and then it does...
Love is the chute not opening,
        too,
        and the fall to earth
        you expected all along--
        and were not
        disappointed.