To Love At all is to be vulnerable
Love Anything And your heart
Will Certainly be Wrung
And Possibly Be broken
If You Want to Make Sure
Of Keeping It intact,
You Must Give your heart
To No One, not even to an animal.
Wrap It Carefully round
With Hobbies And little luxuries;
Avoid All Entanglements;
Bolt It Up safe in the casket
Or Coffin Of your selfishness
But In That casket-Safe,Dark,
Motionless,Airless-it will change.
It Will Not be broken;
It Will Become unbreakable,
Inpenetrable, Irredeemable........
The Only Place outside heaven
Where you can be perfectly safe
From All Dangers of love
...........................is hell.
C.S. Lewis