What we talk about when there is too much to say and so little life to say it, or imagine we are playing our hands down to the last card and are beaten by our desires to win? Everything about love is defined as a game of chance. A prayer, no matter what the answer holds, keeps truth alive long enough to understand there is more to love than merely living, and trees and oceans are celebrated not for what they say but what remains unspoken during the final hours of sleep. Or when a man takes a woman’s hand the gesture means so little the birds-like nesting in her palms spread their wings and fly away as frightened animals. Everyone carries their own catalog of passions, and some plant the seedlings wherever they go to populate the world, with forests and green hills and oceans that grow calm after the lovelessness, of a night when dreaming is holding on, signing its name on a beach’s tideline to form a covenant with the world, the contract on which lovers and loveless agree to praise creation in a heartbeat.
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
