Listen "Perpetrators & Victims of Love"
Episode Synopsis
Our lives are a collage of a thousand scraps of random, and often irreconcilable, happenstances and mistakes and decisions thrown onto a canvas of existence.
Love is often the most decisive happening of our lives, often trooping in unannounced and more often than not, grossly disrupting our lives - and mostly overstaying beyond our comprehension.
We are both perpetrators and victims of love, even as we are the helpless receptacles, seeing ourselves change - beyond our own comprehension. All because we are in love.
Love makes us reactive, even as we grow generous, imaginative, fiery, beautiful and gentle. It is the only thing in the world which shows us the good and the bad we are perfectly capable of. We become both warriors and gentle creatures. Meek to suggestion, fiery to defend. Beyond ambition, beyond our need for fulfilment, love gives us justification.
The question then is never of right or wrong, of the ethics of choice or decision, it's of direction. The question is of being consumed, of being in the shadows and the sunlight.
Unbehest to our senses, when love enters our lives, our stars immediately realign - we are then not ourselves but of our destiny.
If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on the quiet advent of love -
An Ordinary Poem on Love
Quietly Yours
Old Poems for Old Loves
Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.
Get in touch with me on [email protected]
The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -
Medieval Tabletop Session by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/medieval-tabletop-session
Licence: https://filmmusic.io/song/medieval-tabletop-session
Immersion by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/immersion
Licence: https://filmmusic.io/song/immersion
Love is often the most decisive happening of our lives, often trooping in unannounced and more often than not, grossly disrupting our lives - and mostly overstaying beyond our comprehension.
We are both perpetrators and victims of love, even as we are the helpless receptacles, seeing ourselves change - beyond our own comprehension. All because we are in love.
Love makes us reactive, even as we grow generous, imaginative, fiery, beautiful and gentle. It is the only thing in the world which shows us the good and the bad we are perfectly capable of. We become both warriors and gentle creatures. Meek to suggestion, fiery to defend. Beyond ambition, beyond our need for fulfilment, love gives us justification.
The question then is never of right or wrong, of the ethics of choice or decision, it's of direction. The question is of being consumed, of being in the shadows and the sunlight.
Unbehest to our senses, when love enters our lives, our stars immediately realign - we are then not ourselves but of our destiny.
If you liked this poem, consider listening to these other poems on the quiet advent of love -
An Ordinary Poem on Love
Quietly Yours
Old Poems for Old Loves
Follow me on Instagram at @sunilgivesup.
Get in touch with me on [email protected]
The details of the music used in this episode are as follows -
Medieval Tabletop Session by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/medieval-tabletop-session
Licence: https://filmmusic.io/song/medieval-tabletop-session
Immersion by Sascha Ende
Link: https://filmmusic.io/en/song/immersion
Licence: https://filmmusic.io/song/immersion
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