Scales
At what point
is love in balance?
resolved?
love is not an
unyielding beam,
but, 'flects as
weight of want
or force of need
offsets
another's wishes.
Yet
such scales can
never measure
loss nor the loss
of balance.
words and foto T Carroll
Comments
Chris :o) You are near the mark- my intent is to show that there is no 'stasis' in a relationship but force of events -however caused- keeps the relationship under some sort of pressure. And how that pressure causes a 'loss of balance' within a relationship. ''No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man...'' Heraclitus . Tommy
There is a truth in here and your language avoids the typical. A fresh and philosophically interesting take on how we define something, something that intangibly refuses to be defined.
Balance, resolve, scales, they're too physical in our typical understandings. Even in a metaphysical sense, they're all hard edges and cannot possibly add up to, nor equate to love or an explanation to us - of love.
But I feel you know that, whether that was a deliberate expression of part of an inner understanding.
Irrespective of my interpretation - I very much enjoyed this poem.
Best
Chris
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Chris Co
Fri 1st Feb 2013 13:00
Well thought and captured Tommy.