Love in Redshift

From early 2016 when the open mic was still going on.

the moment after you walk down the aisle

your lover's process begins

radioactive decay

of their personality

into their character

just as entropy betrays time having a direction

arrogance betrays the difference between good and evil

as it's so often borne out of virtue

guilt and shame are tow trucks

either tows either

calling confiding "sharing" is Orwellian

because once something comes out of you

you can never get it back

whether you speak

speaks louder

than what you speak

it's not a surprise

the people with the bluest blood are the coldest

the things that got me bullied as a kid

make me invisible as an adult

when your faith gets cooked

you're in a pickle

between expectation and disbelief

love is like a timeline

of shining Christmas lights

falling out of it is breaking the bulb

that makes the whole line of them go out

love is unobtanium

that's why people guard it with their life

and go nuts when they lose it

love is an irrational number

as it goes on forever

it’s never the same thing

love is like aloha

it's the hello of giving

and the goodbye of taking

all to once

love is a pheromone

carried on the stench

of sacrifice

love is known by the trail it leaves in its wake

not by the sight of its prow

there is more love on earth

than there is in heaven

because love is borne out of pain

the Inuit have fifty words for snow

and we have one for love

(maybe the reason our culture has so few words for love

is because we do so little of it)

the heart gets what it wants
even if it kills the rest of the person in the process

God is dead

he was the collateral damage

of killing love