Love is a strange thing.Some it makes languid and dreamy,as thought intoxicated by sweet lavender on a balmy summer’s day.Some it makes lascivious and scheming.Some only treat love as a lark,feeling free to keep their lover on a leash and commit larceny of the heart.Myself,I am only a layman,for my love is still in its latency and I have yet to attain this laudable prize.I wonder what is the secret of lasting rapture.Is it to practise largesse,to lavish expensive largesses as though larding your sweetheart in the hope it will turn from juicy larva to magnificent butterfly?I have seen many a couple where one spent money as though their wallet were leaking while the other was quite content to leach from them as much as possible,filling their own larder while their partner grew ever more lean.Is it instead to be found in hot passion,as though the blood in your veins had been replaced with searing lava and were both seem lashed together by mutual ardor to the point where they can’t sit down without one being in the other’s lap?But it seems to me that these relationships always have a short lease and very quickly become lank bread where the leaven has been removed.
Many pelple begin well but over time begin to languish as the freshness dissipates and their affection moves to cooler latitudes.In their lassitude,they forget the need to laud their partner or alternatively drop the latch on their own heart and cut off the laudatory remarks that are as necessary to receive as to give.Their languor causes them to become lax about their appearance.Why lave if only your partner will see you?Conversely,some become more unforgiving of minor lapses and demand complete control of their other half as though they held a lasso round the other’s being.The complete leakage of devotion may lead to a layover in the relationship or even a total leave-taking.Sometimes this is expected and you can prepare for it,sometimes it hits you from a lateral direction and leaves you feeling empty as though there were a laxative that worked on your emotions.
So I say again,my love is latent,but dream of when it will arrive in a landslide and we will complement each other in such a way as to from a lattice,working together,open but strong,and maybe one day we’ll visit the lapidary together!