Logical Bonds

How can love be rational?
How can an endless yearning
For another human being,
A feeling that takes control of one’s
Very senses in a gangrenous grip,
A rope pulled tight around the neck,
Be beneficial to life?
What is gained?
All is lost,
That is certain,
And all is to be lost,
Once again true.
So why subject oneself to such a sentiment?
Why be placed voluntarily under such torture?
Why be stretched to such limits?

Yet how can love be irrational?
To place all on the line for the love
Of another is a worthy cause
When the love of another
Has such potency and power,
When the love of another is the
Greatest of all prizes.
It takes you beyond life,
It conquers all.

Thus, if love cannot be rational
Than it must be irrational.
And if love is not irrational,
Than it must be rational.

But how can it be both?
Can the battle of contradictions
That takes place within the realm
Of love
Ever be resolved?
Or should love be just accepted
For what it is?
For the calm and for the turmoil.
For the happiness and for the pain.
For the willingness and for the resistance.