for chochmat halev's tu b'av (jewish valentine's day) service, 5781 <3
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Love is illogical and soft
meaning
There is no pain greater in the world
than loving something and losing it
crafting perfect paper cranes, to watch them disappear in flame turn nothing
Why would you ever choose to guarantee yourself that pain
knowing that to love something is to lose something
eventually
Love is illogical and soft
meaning
You’ll know it by how your muscles ease
and how it tickles your nose like soda pop fizz
and how if you slip it under your soles,
between your toes
it’ll lift you, like a thick bed of moss
like a cloud
like good news
like sunlight through summer leaves
like home
Love is illogical and soft
meaning
It is totally human
unbearably human
meaning
It molds
and it grows
and it comes
and it goes
and it shocks
and it lives
and it dies
and it is
meaning
Love is exactly
as illogical and soft
as life is
as the best part of life
meaning
Love is the best part of life
nothing more or less, exactly within those bounds
a taste of what infinity might taste like if we could taste it
and god there is no sweeter taste
there is no better thing
than loving You
and all the little yous that make You up
every gosh-darn reflection of your infinite grace
Why would I ever choose to guarantee myself this pain
knowing that to love this hard will be to lose this hard
eventually
because i am illogical and soft
because love is illogical and soft
because love and i are just as illogical and soft
as life is
as the best parts of life
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