My friends and I, often talk about,

the themes of love and romance.

We also often,

in those discussions,

wonder about,

emergence and intentionality.

Often, those discussions

are exhausting.

Did I fall in love with you,

like a leaf drops from a tree?

Or the way, humans build

skyscrapers, houses, and mausoleums?

Did I fall out of love with you,

like a rainbow appears

when light strikes water?

Or, or like a writer edits out,

fervently,

the bits he didn’t like,

from his manuscript.



A postscript –

Maybe it isn’t an either/or answer.

Maybe it isn’t as simple as

writing and running

lines of code,

which run without error, either

or, must be debugged.

Maybe the difference I am drawing

does not even exist

except in complex systems of

language and philosophy.