This is what I would say to you if it could be
said. Love is the world's fifth force and the greatest.
It draws together by some dark mystery
one soul and another. In that free fall best
to abandon safety. Best to give up all fear,
overturning even reason itself. For the sweet
gravity is its own argument. And the clear
energies will wash away pain. Every defeat
is reversed in the instant the heart is truly given.
Who does not live for that balm? What is more
wholesome and holy? Though the flesh be riven
and expectations torn, this is the hope we live for.
Let us honor, then, whatever it is we feel,
for by this medicine we truly heal.