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This thing they call love,
Seems to me
To bring more pain than happiness,
More tears than laughter,
More death than life.
True love is too powerful an emotion
For the human psyche to endure.
We can not handle it,
Or stand its intensity.
This thing they call love,
Seems to me,
More terrible than any war,
Ravaging than any natural catastrophe,
Damaging than any weapon.
True love
Is a disease with no cure,
Leaving millions dead or wanting to be,
In its wake.
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