LOVE'S LANGUAGE: An attempt to learn the grammar of the heart

	love is a langu
	age hurd to enter
	stand
	it hes a komplicutad sin
	tax twizted tenses & 
	und konflictang dominds

	wen u lisen klosly—
	do you h
	ear a single voice or jumble of 
	statik noize, jumbled & fleet?

	whud sort of morphology ipeerz? 
	are its sentenses evr kleer?
	doez luv speak in reggular verbs—
	or shatter all rules we hold deer?

	ah, die humun hart!
	what a purely de
	signod machine! it sputters & fritz—
	no garantyz, no warrantees—
	just sparks in the dark
	& shorted-out dreams...
	
SETTING: Three friends sat in the soft, amber glow of a local library, some poems resting
between them like broken clockwork toys. Amber light pooled around them as the deliberately
fractured text seemed to pulse on the parchment - each spelling a tiny fractures of a concept
often called "love." Outside, rain whispered against leaded windows like tears on glass.

Miok traced the jagged line breaks with a skeptical thumb, her expression softening into a
nostagalic half-smile. "I suspect that anyone trying to map the human heart is doomed before
they start," she said, her voice like velvet. "Love isn't a riddle to be solved or a syntax to
be mastered. You can't understand it under a microscope; you can only stand in the rain and
experience the downpour." She pushed the page away, remembering her own lost loves.

Cantara leaned forward, the light reflecting the sharp intelligence in her eyes. She wasn't
ready to let the mystery go unexamined. "That’s fair enough, Miok," she countered, in a tone
sparking with a scholar's defiance. "But shouldn't every corner of the human experience be open
to inquiry? Even if the grammar is imperfect, shouldn't we at least try to name the parts? To
remain silent is to admit defeat. Silence is often the ultimate betrayal."

Tim let out a long, weary sigh, staring at the poem’s final lines about the "purely designed
machine." Without looking up, spoke in a distant and grounded tone. "The intellect is a blunt,
heavy tool, Cantara. Trying to use logic to decipher love is like trying to perform open-heart
surgery with a sledgehammer. You might reach the center, but you'll destroy the very thing you
were trying to save in the process."


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from Heart Scenes: Emotional Landscapes via Art, Poetry, & Prose by T Newfields
Long-Summary: Somem thoughts about love's elusive language sparks a visceral debate among 
three friends, where intellectual dissection clashes with emotional surrender, revealing 
that the heart's grammar defies neat taxonomies.
Short-Summary: An artwork, poem, and dialog about the many contradictions inherent in love.
Keywords: conflicting emotions, human hearts, emotions, deconstructing love, human vulnerability, 
linguistic deconstructions, emotional syntax, phonetic fragmenting, the metaphysics of love

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 1986 in Nagoya, Japan  ☆ Finished: 2026 in Shiuoka, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

Disclosure: This piece was partially generated using AI tools for styling and ideation; 
            human editing was then applied.

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