Love Comes Unexpectedly

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Love comes unexpectedly,
An arrow to the heart,
But stays only reluctantly
Through patience, will, and art. The full-length version of the story
Has both joy and pain,
Boredom, lust, betrayal, glory,
Anger, comfort, shame. It ends in grief, inevitably,
Through death or separation,
The harshness of the agony
As strong as the relation. So why, then, love? And why persist
In love long after passion
Has gone its way? And why resist
An urge one need not ration? The answer is in something more
Than fantasy and pleasure --
A passion passion never saw,
A hunger beyond measure; A longing for the One in one
One longs for all one's life,
And is love, yes, the same that binds
A husband to a wife.

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