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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"


Why Do Fools Fall in Love?

The wise predict every outcome,
their long-reaching gazes with far-sighted eyes
reading the unseen future,
forecasting every business deal,
seeing the result of every nod and handshake,
forever marrying objectives and outcomes.

But we meet too many football players
 who fall for dancers,
professors for cashiers,
doctors for secretaries,
party animals for wall-flowers.

It’s the lack of vision that guides the lover,
blindness the hand that leads her
through this shadowland without pattern,
without lists of common interests,
the blindness that is the way to love,
the embraced mystery
that is the sole province of the fool.

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