Trigger of the Heart

There is a certain curiosity I possess towards people

Who resent love like a leader does a traitor.

Yes, love is war, yet the soldiers stand two,

Like the sole either-sidely survivors of a gory battle.

This can only end in two variants:

 

An eternity of peace

Or a victory of violence and hatred.

 

Such is love.

It is bloody and terrifying 

With its uncertainties and doubts and trust that

Resembles staring down the barrel of a gun.

One click, one word, one tap to Achilles’ heel and it could all fall apart.

 

A theory to ponder pounds pensively in the adrenaline charged instant

Between a punch and a kiss.

A scream or a whisper.

A shot or a truce.

A theory has no time, yet time has no theory, does it, eventually?

 

And so, to be at war is to be in love.

He hit me and it felt like a kiss.

In love with pain and suffering and in love with joy and prosperity.

A passion towards a motherland and the spoils of victory.

Eventually though, is the kill worth it? Is a truce incurable by kisses?

Perhaps love is fuelled by a curiosity towards people who have not yet felt it?