Using the blandishments of love for purely deceitful purposes!

By Stanley Collymore

Can you, if you don’t mind my asking, kindly tell

me what you seriously and honestly think that

love actually is? Or would you rather stay

sullen on this matter and instead silently sense it as

some kind of a variable and convoluted version

of your emotions that you witlessly carry

in your head to assiduously employ

whenever you wish to selfishly

get whatever it is that you

desperately want, and therefore see

and conveniently use love as a

handy and useful ploy to

have things your way?

And if that’s the case, which I frankly believe

it is, what does that really say about you?

Furthermore, and I think I already

know the answer to my next

question so it’s not by any means idle

speculation, what would be your

personal reaction if you were

to discover that there are

other persons, just as

egocentrically and

comprehensively purposefully

inclined as you doubtlessly

are in their own peculiar

and selfish ambitions

who generally thought and, as well,

uncaringly behaved as you do?

And, even more specifically,

callously directed their

own reprehensible

pursuits at you?

© Stanley V. Collymore

18 December 2019.

Author’s Comments:

It’s high time, I believe, that all languages currently in regular usage and most particularly so those of the so-called modern and westernized countries, that their conventional users take an exceptionally, most long, hard, thoughtful and a distinctly honest look at the word “love” as it is presently rather disingenuously and most appallingly utilized by the overwhelming mass of residents in these respective countries.

And if there are any purportedly professional etymologists around and who’re actually worth the status that they’re customarily and more often than not unthinkingly given, that the same etymologists amongst themselves either make a genuine and lasting name for themselves or more appropriately so altruistically for the overall benefit of humanity. And as a direct result of this analysis coin a new and truthfully meaning word that honestly and permanently in all ways symbolizes what love and everything authentically associated with it is truly all about.

For the current and much abused word “love” is both abysmally and definitely defunct. Dead as the dodo! And, in essence, has irretrievably lost its venerable, select and all-encompassing positive meaning.