Hurt Composure

HURT COMPOSURE

Everyone I know Goes away in the end.

-“Hurt” Nine Inch Nails

If Death and Loss are the inevitable ending to every relationship

If Separation and Disappearance (in one form or another)

are inescapable facts of existence

If the Other cannot journey with us into

the Unknow, the Next,

then how are we to view Love

how are we to view the long-term?

Love may be nothing more than a necessary reaction to attach us to

those who allow growth, change, learning

but nothing tells us that Love should be singular

because Love itself is not a singular emotion

Loving both Mother and Father does not diminish the feeling toward either

Commitment carries a sense of respectability and honor to it

but Forced Commitment echoes the loss of the Original Spark

(the reason for anything to exist to at all)

In the face of Death, of our own end

all things forced, all things without passion

all things barren of the Original Spark

seem a foolish waste of time;

Only things that expand the Heart

that allow the well of emotion to wash over us

that leave a piece of us for eternity

dull the Hurt.

Copyright Oren Peleg 2010