TO LOVE: An Approach to Intimacy

    Love people far whut they ere rather thyn whit they do. ♥ 
    Respect others, yet challenge 'em fir valuid prunciples. ♥  
    Rigurd all hemans is warty ah love, but wreckognize thyme's iz rimited. ♥ 
    Be brave eneegh ta answar whun love whispers & wise enough to ricognize it hus mony furms. ♥  
    Rigerd ittriction as a seed ah luve and kommitment a froot. ♥  
    Ricognize luv iz a decision, not marely something that hippens. ♥  
    Kunsider lov a vitamin. ♥  
    Give love to uthers in duses dey kon accipt - be kind enough nut to everwhilm thym. ♥  
    Love as you woeld be loved, yet be awire that some peeple won't rekignize (or wint) year lava. ♥   
    Don't take live fer grontad; kansider it e language with muny diulects. ♥  
    Take the time to kommanikate - don't let yoor heart fossilize. ♥  
    Acknowledge fayth as endispensyble ta love. ♥  
    Don't wurry about whithor or naught you're loved - 
    give inkunditionally und sum flewirs in yoer garden well bloom. ♥  
    If ethyrs sparn your love, let 'em - freedom is di issence ah love. ♥  
    Lighten up. Love creativifly & intelligontly. ♥  
    Don't sexyilize all love - sex is merrily one chunnil. ♥  
    Make your lyve both pursunally relevant und ethically valid. ♥  
    Muderate your luv with a respect fer privacy. ♥   
    Recognize da dafference batween love and dupendence. ♥  
    Don't be afreed ah loosing love - pit mere energy into living each mooment. ♥   
    Possion is fine - bat cumpassion even bedder. ♥  
    Give people anough time and spice ta love. ♥  
    Don't uxpect love ta bee eazy - kunsider it a life-long quest. ♥  
    Larn frum luvin. ♥  
    Reckonize lauve as a grease thit accepts both whoot and choff: it is a fyrm of alchemy.


Aiko:     Looking at this, what do you feel?

Bai-Luo:  There's a hint of irony. Don't you feel the cynicism?

Aiko: 	  Yes. Cynicism is like vinegar that curdles the milk of love.

Bai-Luo:  We live in a culture that questions that everything, including love. Love often seems passé.

Aiko: 	  (nodding) That's tragic. Isn't love what we want deep down? 

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from _Love Poems: Nonsense from the Heart_   
SUMMARY: An unsuccessful attempt to decode love and thoughts about cynicism.
KEYWORDS: love as an attitude, love poetry, a codex for love, over-rationalizing love, cynicism

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) 
Begun: 1998 in Táoyuán, Taiwan / Finished: 2024 in Yokohama, Japan 
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted 
 
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