Love and Convention
Convention:
the ordinary and impersonal decision;
without strength
and without fruit.
Love:
a muddy path, prematurely fused;
without any clarification
nor solution.
Both can be discovered
where life begins.
Source Material: Rilke, Rainer Maria. “Letters To A Young Poet.” Translated by Stephen Mitchell, The Modern Library, 1984, pp. 74 - Written 2020