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Lovers Anemones
Misfits and Me
A narrative -
Interwoven, a love affair.
By David Melrose.
What can possibly be said of love that has not been said before? The great minds through history have deliberated over it; writers, philosophers, poets,songsters, theologians, filmmakers. Everyone falls prey to its grasp at some time, some turn their back on it, some live the fairy tale, some live in fear of it, some deny it or enact their version of it in complicated configurations. It is infinite, eternal, all embracing, stultifying, liberating, agonising, ecstastic, true, false, fickle, hardcore, folklore. Through time it has been debated, sung and written about. Love shows up in the most unlikely places at the most inopportune times. It hits, it hurts, it endures or does not.
Ovid, Shakespeare, Goethe, Schiller, Longfellow, Keats, Byron, Lennon and McCartney, Gibran, et al, all mapped loves many faces and held facets of it up to us for our inspection. They all in their own way coloured in a portion of the picture, filling the canvas with a riot of styles and hues so that it is difficult for a modern day writer to find a blank space on the canvas to make his few insignificant daubs show through and stand out from the welter of what has preceded.
These writings show unguarded feelings, unselfish love, unfettered passion, unplumbed depths, ultimate despair and the sense that love is not all you need. Of course, there is more to it than that; situations, time and reasons modify circumstances, attenuate and gnaw at the haunch, leaving a bone that may be picked at.