Blurring lines of Confusion

In the value driven idealistic society from which we dwell deep within the power of few words remain in the steadfast strength they have in centuries gone past. One of these final frontiers, remaining one of a kind grows in meaning as words fall around it to the consuming demonic consumption of technology and seeming lack of attitude and desire we all posses. Yet with all this defamation and apparent faults of the human race this word grows exponentially, baffling everyone, striking when least expected and becoming an overall nuisance for those who cannot grasp it. Yes the word is LOVE and the mystique and insurmountable power of it being the essence of how we may still be able live in a world language thrives. Poets, authors, philosophers and random writers such as myself have had an eternal fascination with the word and the endless connotations which attract the constant drive for knowledge, answers and meaning. Quote after quote, poem after poem, song after song, story after story; yet has anyone managed to grasp the eternal depth, mystique and double edged effect of love? The way people are drawn in and so possessed by a single emotion completely and utterly blows my mind. How, as I have seen, felt and lived, one can live completely risk free and take everything with a cautious approach to life can lose sight of it all in the ring of love. Yes, even the most reserved find themselves acting out of line and out of character. Here lies what I see as the greatest mystery of love, does it bring out the best or the worst of us? Has the meaning of love changed so much over the centuries that it now comes to involve lustful thoughts, actions and that it can bring out the worst in us? That a desire for something rides so high that we would do absolutely anything to gain, love or lust? Or has the line between love and lust become so blurred that they have become one. That you can take the glory, beauty and peacefulness of love and leave with the hunger, desperation and disrespect of lust yet not know that your feelings and emotions which swell deep within have become polar opposites of what the appeared to be as your original intentions. As this rant could continue on and on, I wish to leave a conclusion for you to think about, if love and lust have become one what does this mean for mankind? What have we done to the most beautiful emotion and feeling we could all undergo. Forget lust, just love.