be_my_love_a_fevered_intoxication stork daddy i would rather burn in its tumult than return to the indifferent sobriety that came before. if all reason provides the world as bleak drudgery and merciless repetition; if i am indeed a dying soldier on the plains of a sysiphean charge, let me take my last breaths then in the twilight between reason and madness where at least there exists beauty. Something in you is real enough to fuel this fancy, bringing me a peace that in this world must always be a hallucination. if i am young werther i am young werther. if this sublimity is my destruction, then destroy me. 080408 ... stork daddy this edit is funnier: In the rejoinder since our engagement, you have decried my love as an intoxication. How futile it would be to claim temperance when I am lost, hopelessly lost, in delerium. State what it is but do not impeach its sincerity. If intoxication, it is chiefly that your lips are wine. Be my love such a fever, I would rather burn in its tumult than return to the indifferent sobriety in which I found you. If all reason, if the pinnacle of western man, provides the world as bleak drudgery and merciless repetition of business and state; if I am a dying soldier on the plains that bore a Sysiphean charge, let me take my last breaths then in the twilight of reason and madness, where there exists at least some beauty. Something in you is redoubtable enough to fuel this fancy, not in me only but in a generation of men, a host of the well meaning. It brings me peace, this, and peace is a worthy hallucination. If I am young Werther, if this sublimity be destruction, then destroy me! 080408 ... jane there is always some madness in love, but there is always some reason in madness. {nietzsche} 080408 ... unhinged love_is_pain the_four_seals 080408 ... unhinged but then i woke up with a headache and the sure knowledge that my love for you was not a fever dream was not a whiskey figment for best or worst it was still there when i woke up 080425 ... unhinged the fire is doused by time by age now i want more than anything constancy calm and cooling like water on a hot day (the fire of my passions has left me scorched parched burned snuffed_out consumed love that could rehydrate my shriveled heart that seems like the perfect answer) 180528 what's it to you? who go blather from