The remnants of a lost love
My thoughts linger on the remnants of a lost
love
Gone with the wind.
With precision profound and passion
unflinching,
A beautiful allegory showcasing the truth of love
Reigned in my heart for years many.
‘Loving is always cathartic,’
He whispered with feelings exuberant
In my ears soft and attentive.
The message spread around,
Hale and hearty, bright and light
Like kaleidoscopic rangoli
In all the cells of my body,
Making me shine with
The seven colors of love.
I was in the prime of my youth,
Always talking gleefully, gently and
peacefully.
I touched his silvery grey hair
Which was like fur of a velvety cap.
Leaning on his shoulder, I replied,
‘Love knows neither decay nor decline.’
We looked at the crystal moon,
Our fingers entwined,
Admiring the sights and the sounds
Offered by the waves.
We slept together on the sands soft.
In the morning, while the first sun rays
Warmed our hearts laden with love
And bodies drowned in passions pure,
We said ‘Adieu’ and parted.
Love had her reasons to bring us together
And life had his reasons to separate us for
ever
Colors of Love -- Iryna Shostak-Orlova
For Platon, "love" referred to all beautiful and good things, because their possession is what we call happiness, but the most beautiful is truth or wisdom. Therefore, said Platon, love is not a god but a philosopher. As he remarked in "The Symposium," "He whom love touches not walks in darkness." Just prior to that statement he wrote, "At the touch of [love] everyone becomes a poet, even though he had no music in him before." But, then, he himself (rare among philosophers) was also a poet. But (when he was not rhapsodizing) he and his fellow Greeks (including especially his encyclopedic student Aristoteles) took a more analytical view of the phenomenon and generally decided on 7 forms of love, though recognizing that they could be combined with one another. For Aristoteles "philautia" (love of self) was the highest form, because none of the others could exist without it. "Eros" is the passionate, intense desire for someone or something; for Platon, this was the desire that seeks transcendental beauty (as in "Phaedrus," in which he wrote "he who loves the beautiful is called a lover because he partkes of it"). "Philia" is the love of the mind, or brotherly love, or true friendship among equals, which is sincere and nonsensual. "Agape," love of the soul, is the selfless, unconditional love of God and of humanity. "Ludus" is playful love, such as the fleeting affection between young lovers. "Storge" is primarily based on kinship, such as the natural love between parents and children. "Pragma" is longstanding love that has transcended a casual relationship or physical attraction. In addition, "mania," obsessive love, was sometimes regarded as an 8th form. In 1973 Canadian psychologist John Alan Lee published "Colours of Love: An Exploaration of the Ways of Loving," in which he introduced a color wheel demonstrating the interactions of what he regarded as the 3 primary types (eros, ludus, and storge) & 3 secondaries (mania, pragma,and agape). By combining 1 primary & 1 secondary, he proceeded to identify 9 tertiary forms. In 2007 Enzo Emanuele provided a genetic basis for individual variations in Lee's classification: eros is linked to the dopamine system, mania to the serotonin system, and eros to the Taql A1 allele of DRD@ 3' UTR sequence and the overlapping ANKK1 exon 8. The year before, he identified NGF (the neurotrophin nerve growth factor) as a key biochemical mediator of "falling in love."
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