Love Poem: Decomposing Love
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Decomposing Love

Can you truly love a rock,
you've never directly seen or touched,
or some other relatively inanimate object,
like a steel wall,
or ego-centrism?

If so, then how is your "love"
different from a whimsical "appreciate you"?

If not, then what is different between your "love"
and your "co-passions"?
Compassion,
passion with and toward,
but not passionate energy returned from Other 
necessarily,
or, Yes! Necessarily!?

How do you know your love is also co-passion,
reiterated and returned,
however un-equivalently expressed it may be?
Is this not a matter of positive faith,
of unconditional co-invested hope?
That boundary-free time 
between Other's stimulus 
and your response,
before and after,
subjective anticipating felt objectives,
identity refined through co-relationship,
in an environ-mental healthy cause that is,
by effective default,
setting aside mutual immunity barriers,
to more courageously and opportunistically co-habitate,
curiously co-integrate,
co-passioning environ-mental love

Rather than fear, anger, anxiety, apathy,
all dissonance settings of negatively felt default,
oppressive to self,
suppressive of Other's natural integrity

Tipping pointed barometer
of active curiosity
toward positive values of win/win strategic opportunity

Edging out double-binding 
mind/body
spirit/nature 
ego/eco
Self/Other disvalues 
of two passively negative non-risk takers,
hoarding against a co-passionate future
more contentedly resilient 
than a contentious ally 
of death-defying 
Me v We
Yang v Yin
+PolyNomial v -(-PolyPathic) hopeless despair,
unpaired negativity.