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Random Notes on Relationship
1
"It takes restraint to nurture
a relationship. Haste and greed
finish it quickly: you eat through
all the good parts and then
there's nothing left to relish."
2
The would-be husband
frowned upon my advice:
looking at his lovely fiancée
with mock-longing, he quipped:
"When I most long for her
she'll quote these lines,
as a shield against me."
3
I thought of the logic
of bourgeois marriages:
demurely saying "please wait" before;
"yes" only after the completion
of all the paper work--
and never being able to say "no"
afterwards:
how law, custom, and culture
regulate the entrance
to a woman's body.
4
The problem is in what we feel,
not with what we do or don't:
it's the emotions behind our actions
that break hearts.
The woman who touches another man
can be taken back, “forgiven”;
but what can you do when
when she’s stopped caring for you
her heart empty or dead?
5
I used to believe
that truth saves relationships
and deception destroys them.
But I realized too late
that "Human kind
Cannot bear very much reality."
Perhaps, it's what
we hide that keeps relationships
while what we reveal
terminates them.
