Is there an instant love?
All love happens instantly.
Love is faster than we can see.
Avoiding love is how love becomes a possibility.
If love hasn’t happened, we only need to wait
For the one thing love needs: out-of-focus hate.
Passion is a mixture in the right degree
Of sad discord and happy harmony.
She studies the book and learns
Of what does not love. In love, she burns.
When she, on fire, sought relief,
I stole her fire. Love is the thief
That deals in fire and never cools
Itself and burns itself and burns the schools.
You never understood her love and why her love was rash
Until you found the world and all its wisdom is ash.
