Exposition of Love

What is Love?
It is fake.
What does it do?
Our hearts it does slake.

Who falls in Love?
Fools do, of course.
Because avoiding Love,
Just might be worse.

Pick your poison,
Married or single.
One you die alone,
The other you die mingled.

Love takes your true dreams,
And gives you new ones to pursue.
The purpose of this phenomena,
Is one no one can quite construe.

Your doomed to love,
And doomed to die.
Will you choose one or both,
Before ascension to the sky?

Might as well love,
Might not get the chance again.
Even if the Holy Ones say,
That Love can lead to sin.

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First stanza says love slakes our hearts. Slake can mean to become extinct or to satiate. Thus love can give our hearts the comfort needed to live, or can destroy them. This is why it is so fake in that it has no one "true" form.

Second stanza says fools fall in love. In actuality it means that a person becomes a fool after they fall in love, not necessarily before. A person has a choice of loving someone or being lonely throughout their life. Love often stems from the fear of being alone, which would be a worse alternative.

Third stanza says being married and single are both poisons. A person has to pick which one they want to go through. Marriage has its own challenges, as does being alone with only yourself. With one you'll die alone, but free, and with the other you'll die "with" someone, but bound or committed (I realize people will have big objections to this).

The fourth stanza says that Love takes peoples dreams in life and gives them new ones. Often times dreams are transformed after falling in love in order to accommodate the loved one in someone's life. How and why Love manages to do this to people, no one is quite sure, since that requires concrete knowledge of Love itself. Such objective material is not available.

The fifth stanza says that your doomed to fall in love and doomed to die. Everyone should feel at some point as if they are in love, whether its real or not. Everyone is also doomed to die. These two universal truths will occur to each person no matter what. The question raised is whether you will choose to let your Love for another person rule over your ultimate Death, or whether you will allow your Death to overshadow the Love you obtained in life.

The sixth stanza says that you might as well love someone since you might die and never get the chance again if the after-life doesn't exist. The last two lines aren't meant to suggest that a person fall in love with as many people as possible. It's meant to suggest the correlation of Lust and Love. Some people say Lust is the ultimate form of Love, and Lust is portrayed as one of the"deadly sins". Everyone has their own opinion on what exactly Love and Lust are, but they both share some of the same fundamental connotations, which begs the question, "Does it matter if one loves in love, loves in lust, lusts in love, or lusts in lust?"