Love? Poem by Richmon Rey Jundis

(Hegelian Poem)

One said, love is just a feeling
That deceives us with its' beauty
That resembles to a rainbow,
Cannot be touched but can only be seen.

The other said that love is an act
That a pure soul can only do,
Though it can be extended to the bones and flesh,
But its' pureness can be seen only if its' selfless
By an opposite soul that is timeless.

Other said
That love requires nothing from the beloved,
And thus teaches the lover to be a giver
Who asks nothing for return.

Insufficiently, the other claimed
That love causes us to feel the sweet heaven,
But can also make us feel the blazing hell
When the lover sees the beloved in pain.

I asked myself:
"How then can I know what love really is? "
A question that, now, keeps running
Round and round my head.

Amidst the confusion of my heart,
The soul of Hegel,
A lover and a philosopher of the past,
Whispered behind my ears
And told me that the key to know
Is to unify the different concepts of love
And infuse it to the reality.

Hegel taught me
That the different experiences of love
Give fragments that need to be bind together,
And this is the task of every soul:
To seek different forms of love
And must join to the clasping of hands
While everyone journeys
In seeking the absolute knowledge of love.
An absolute knowledge
That is rooted from the contribution
Of collective experiences.