Love Poem: Unconditional Love
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Written by: Allan Koven

Unconditional Love

UNCONDITIONAL LOVE

Part 1

Of all the different kinds of love. 
Some are gentle. 
Some are oppressive. 
Some come with pre-conditions. 
Some come from expectations. 
Some come with zesty flavors.
Spices and exotics.

In a secluded corner of an antique mind
time enshrouded locked away in a jailess cell 
is unconditional love, a withering shadow, 
a remnant exiled and contagious
plagued by insidious expectations
grieving, resolute and alone.
 
Some try to hide the keys 
from the trolls that invade their thoughts
lest the viruses of doubt 
penetrate the sanctity of pure intention. 
The myth of unconditional love.


Part 2

The loving heart soon decays 
amidst the mistaken belief 
that there are no conditions 
to unconditional love;
there always are.

One must possess a loving heart, 
open to all, not segregated and formed
in irksome contemplation.

When one is not loved back, 
he/she loses his/her impulsion. 
Emotions then become tempered, irrigated 
flattened and distributed in a kind, 
of non-vested washed out amusement 
drying naked tears in a windless environment.

We become the product of our salient beliefs. 
That is why the religious profess 
God's love as being unconditional 
because it is almost non-existent in man. 

Unconditional love? 
There are always conditions, 
some obvious, some hidden, 
some obscure in confused enigmas.

CAK 02-16-2013