Unequivocal Love
A reflective poem exploring love, growth, and moral confusion through the metaphors of folklore. Unequivocal Love revisits Jack and the Beanstalk to question transformation, greed, and who truly benefits from love’s power.
Love can raise the Dead.
From young such I was taught.
Jack chopped down the beanstalk.
An apt equivalent.
Love grows tired and must rest,
Like Blunderbore after scoffing –
He woke, chased & fell to death
The thief and mother duly profiting.
Love is done when Love’s begun –
Apt, but slightly confused.
Who did love favour the sage was asked:
The giant or the thieving little brutes?
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