Socrates shocked the crowd:
Love was not pretty, but obnoxious and loud,
Love wants love. The paradox is this:
Love is cunning, not ready for a kiss.
Love incapable of love. Does that seem dumb?
Well you haven’t read The Symposium.
Beauty for eternity is the goal.
Simple. All want this, if they have a soul.
Beauty is the only thing that’s loyal.
Beauty causes all treachery and toil.
After the confused person is gone,
Only the beautiful person lives on.
Love is when beauty is only for you,
But beauty is desired by others, too.
Sad: Beauty cannot be mortal and true.
Disagree? But I’m more attractive than you.
Love loves. Love loves! But love does not love, too.