Love of Country

What is the point of love? 

A dog distinguishes sex.
A mosquito’s attraction is blood. 
Experience may begin with Forever
then morph over time to NoNever!

Love unfortunately is not always fun
and, unhappily, there’s the option of rape,
a most unloving expression
that is actually expressive of hate.

So, let’s address the pertinent questions:
Is love a disease or obsession?
Madness, a mission, or fate?

And then there’s the life-and-death query:
are you willing to die in a war?