The taste of love is sweet
When hearts like ours meet.
—-June Carter to Johnny Cash in the song, Ring of Fire.
Who’s to say what love is,
Or what it should be,
Or who can love who?
Isn’t it enough to want so deeply
You never stop wanting?
When that very love takes you
To the outer-edge of your ages,
Together still,
When it takes you, even, to the edge of death,
Together still,
In your mutual frailty, buoyed
and bound by your wild desire.
I think, only then can love
Be a thing of true beauty,
When it ventures out
And suspends itself upon the precipice,
And claims for itself,
In a rare moment of honesty,
And courage,
What it truly needs.