Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readOct 31, 2021

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This is both beautiful and emotionally intelligent.

I believe in unconditional love, yet that does not mean staying with someone that is harmful, or even someone that does not suit us, and thus I believe in detaching with love. I also believe that people can fall in and out of love, which does not mean that while they were in love that the love was not unconditional.

I wrote this tanka in response to an oxymoronic prompt “what are the conditions of unconditional love?”

"Unconditional

love twixt humans forever?

Perhaps, perhaps not.

Love is a state of being.

Beings constantly in flux."

I explained the poem thusly: "I suspect many have much to say on that topic. I have thought about people’s feelings on the subject and here is food for thought for you — love is a state of being — many feel one cannot fall out of true love — here’s the fallacy in that — many correctly believe that we are constantly changing — so, since love is a state of being, it is inconsistent to insist that one cannot fall out of true love. "

The full piece contained several more poems about unconditional love: https://medium.com/know-thyself-heal-thyself/unconditional-love-3481bffe22f4

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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