Love, Play

Love's flow finds its moment,
Arching, dipping into the pool.

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Before is foreplay,
During is in-play,
After is fatigue(y).

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A relationship wanders down an avenue,
Poking into byways for insights into human nature,
Using a private language to delve into the matter.

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Strange love meets stranger love,
All for the love of a proper stranger.

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Love found, love lost, love found,
Love lost, love found, love lost,
Love found.

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I look for one to love,
Found many;
I look to one to love,
Found it in many;
I look to many to find love,
I found it in me.

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Nature inchoate,
Nurture explicate.

The Monkey In Humans

Do monkeys see humans as monkeys or humans?
Are we humans outside and monkeys inside?
O, why do monkey things happen in human affairs?
God gives the word and a higher level of thinking to humans
But still it is monkeys they turn up to be;
Why do bad things happen to good people?
God gives a flower to humans, but they turn into monkeys
And tear the flower up;
How do you love a human who has been scorched,
How do you love a woman who has been scorned,
How do you love a child who has been hurt,
Without the monkey in them snatching
It away and up a tree, defiant look and all?
How do you tame the wild when the wild does not want to be tamed?
Can you fashion a handbag from monkey skin?
Why o why do I have to fall for a love monkey?
Who teases, tears, tosses, tests and tricks?
Is a sense of love lost a signpost for a sense of new love found?
As in paradise lost, paradise returned?
And how would you like to bury a love lost
By conceding the ultimate irony:
"Let it be,"
Says humanity,
In the very same monkey?