Is Everything Fair in Love and War?

                






             


                Is the well known saying sound

That everything is fair in love and war?

Perhaps in war it holds water

when you are out to vanquish

and eliminate your enemy

There isn’t any moral bar!

So it goes in pseudo democratic combats

You battle to rob victory in the election

And trample your enemy

By all means, fair or foul

And seat yourself on the throne

No defect of yours is held dereliction!

Is it true in the realm of love,

Where self-sacrifice is the norm?

You never will injure the beloved;

Never wish the harm of the one you love

You desire victory and glory for the other

No, love assumes never a selfish form!

No, love is not envious of the other

Love is never cruel, love is kind

It doesn’t find faults and condemn

Its forgives and blesses even the foe

Oh, love can never be clubbed with war

In love, the very Godhead you find!

Xavier Bage

Fri, Dec 01, 2017