Taking Love for Granted

Love is a war: exchanges of blows, captures made at opportune moments, and pursuits that go on year after year. What you can't have keeps you restless; those who are loved without reservation grow fearless. The image frozen in memory is a black-and-white photograph that can't be erased, blurred yet stubbornly persistent. Once people make up their minds, why do they keep sinking deeper, even when they know it's an abyss, instead of turning back? Love and warmth always come with the steadily approaching breath of death. A mistaken beginning gives rise to sinister schemes and emotional whirlpools beyond imagining. At the next stop, unpredictable dangers lie in wait. Love, hatred, life, and death: it all comes down to a single thought.