okie, i wanted to blog sth mushie, lovey dovey for a change today.. but then hor, i knew it was a sign - a bad omen, as some may put it - that when i was walking back to my room, i saw a couple who was walking in front of me, kissed right in front of me. i know.. *ew*.. couldn't they have jus looked behind as well to check if the coast was clear before doing such things?! PDA...

then hor... as i went out from pgp for a while jus now, i think i saw a couple doing it blatantly in the public! i think only lar, cos the girl had her head so close to the guy's face, what else was i sposed to think? of cos i couldn't like go nearer to see if it's for real, right! eeks, R(A), R(A), close eyes, close eyes.. these went thru my mind then *chuckles*...

so NOPS, no mushie stuff from me today.. instead, shall leave u all with this thought provoking poetry from Wislawa (yeps, the 2nd one from her in my blog.. hope her publisher will not come n hunt me down over copyright issue. erm, disclaimer: the poetry n the likes put on this webpage is solely for personal use, non-commercial! haha.. there, declared liaoz.. me feel safer.. :P)...

True Love

True love. Is it normal,
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions, but convinced
it had to happen this way - in reward for what?
For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn't this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn't it corrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn't they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends' sake!
Listen to them laughing - it's an insult.
The language they use - deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines -
it's obviously a plot behind the human race's back!

It's hard to even guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who'd want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life's highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn't populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there's no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

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Yes, again another mind boggling piece of poetry from my dear, dear Wislawa. So apt for the situations that i was put thru today. sighh.. true love.. jus one thing that continues to bug me after reading her work is this: does Wislawa thus believe in true love? pls answer me on this... :)