True Love Poem by Wislawa Szymborska

True Love

Rating: 3.8


True love. Is it normal
is it serious, is it practical?
What does the world get from two people
who exist in a world of their own?

Placed on the same pedestal for no good reason,
drawn randomly from millions but convinced
it had to happen this way – in reward for what?
For nothing.
The light descends from nowhere.
Why on these two and not on others?
Doesn’t this outrage justice? Yes it does.
Doesn’t it disrupt our painstakingly erected principles,
and cast the moral from the peak? Yes on both accounts.

Look at the happy couple.
Couldn’t they at least try to hide it,
fake a little depression for their friends’ sake?
Listen to them laughing – it’s an insult.
The language they use – deceptively clear.
And their little celebrations, rituals,
the elaborate mutual routines –
it’s obviously a plot behind the human race’s back!

It’s hard even to guess how far things might go
if people start to follow their example.
What could religion and poetry count on?
What would be remembered? What renounced?
Who’d want to stay within bounds?

True love. Is it really necessary?
Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence,
like a scandal in Life’s highest circles.
Perfectly good children are born without its help.
It couldn’t populate the planet in a million years,
it comes along so rarely.

Let the people who never find true love
keep saying that there’s no such thing.

Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dr. Halal 13 June 2021

hello john dorris

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john dorris 13 April 2021

this is a good poen

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Dr Antony Theodore 22 April 2020

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there’s no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die. In this vast and wide world, there are human beings who live through without experiencing true love till death. so unfortunate. tony

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Dr. Halal 13 June 2021

hello dr anthony theodore

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john dorris 13 April 2021

that was good

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Dr Antony Theodore 19 September 2019

True love. Is it really necessary? Tact and common sense tell us to pass over it in silence, like a scandal in Life’s highest circles. Perfectly good children are born without its help.. a big question. is it necessary.. lovely poem. tony

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Hebert Logerie Sr. 03 February 2012

TRUE LOVE, THERE IS NO SUCH THING.

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Dr. Halal 13 June 2021

hello hebert logerie sr

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