IN LOVE
what goes around
comes around
in never-ending
ripples of affection
and deep attention
one to the other.
Love is communion,
the gasping union
of recognizing self
in one another.
Love is only love
when it is both
given and accepted.
Love that goes one way
is not love at all;
but manipulation
and destruction
of any chance for union.
Love that goes one way
inevitably rings false,
a masterful deception
which destroys communion.
Narcissism gives nothing,
but takes all it can get
and more, of those who
cannot accept love
in all its forms and favor.
Accepting love is too hard
for those who are its stranger.
Accepting love warns them
of the past disappointments
when their hearts were in danger.
The narcissist breeds more fear,
and warns them to resist
the call for love both given and received.
In this way, he deceives.
He alone is worthy of love and safe,
so in his arms they place
every dream of being loved.
Love must go both ways.
Always.
One-way love is not love at all.
It only brings destruction and our fall.
Alone, and unloved, we remain after all.
annarino writes 