why do you torture her

with silence

does pain cause you pleasure

leave love to her devices

await not for

anticipated outcomes

required reactions

ostentatious obligations

know that love will

disappoint you

so to anoint you

let love dress you

in ardent robes

love on this path

breaks all idols of

egoic expectation

narcissistic narrations

until the lover is

stripped bare

subdued into submission

of effaced nothingness

so to be.

when we can BE

with love

as ought to be

be becomes Beloved

the seeker is now sought