Selfish Love

The heart cannot be forced to love.
Love, however, can force the heart.
The human condition, selfishness,
love is our resolve.
The towers that fell from hate
what was resolved.
They were wrong, we were wrong.
For the essence of love is humility.
Humility is absent in the city.

In Chagall’s la mariee;
His arm around her gets no response.
Her eyes opened staring forward,
his smile speaks of ignorance
and their wedding is her downfall.
The goat fiddles with a smile,
the fish enjoys his own,
the Bride does not.
He refuses to see or is ignorant of her.
Humility is gone.