The Mockery of Love formerly published) : Love

Doesnt Love itself make a mockery of us all the time? 

But indeed, where hate resides there is no room for love, but perhaps only lusty pleasures. Nothing more.

How about where there is nothing. An empty space. Could there be any room for love in emptiness? 

I think that all shades of love exist side by side. Where the double standard rules one man may make love to a woman while in reality hating or despising her. I know a woman who seduced a man 100% because "he resembles the baby I want" - and which she got by him and then kicked him out.

Love is not an easy condition to evaluate, but it's obvious that it very often mocks us. However, we also mock love by using the word about something which hasn't much to do with the characteristics we ourselves think of when talking about it.

Awful of a woman to use a man in such way!  Then again, he was a fool for not using protection and thus avoiding the outcome. But obviously he trusted the wrong woman. Sad indeed. Yet, those worthy of trust are often not.  :(

Thanks for sharing the story though and the lovely poems.

Could never understand how a human could make love to someone they despised though. Makes no sense. I could never. Yuck!

I've read that in some Catholic societies (Italy) men "visiting" prostitutes spat on their bodies after having sex, thus cleaning themselves of sin while pointing at the woman as despicable for doing what he just did himself. Something - maybe minus the spitting - happens everywhere.

As to the woman who had a child by the man she seduced because he resembled her dream baby (black hair + blue eyes) then I don't condemn her. It was wrong to behave that way, but how many times have men not done something even worse?