Love and Contradiction

Contradiction is a possibili'ty,

Beneath love's skirts you may always glimpse 

            hate,

Love exists in a state of fragil'ty,

It's a thin sheet of ice on which we skate.

But contradiction is not foreordained,

Beneath love's skin may be more love within,

On our wedding day it might not have rained,

I might have avoided my date with sin.

Love can be true, but not economic,

It dies unless opposition can rise,

Repulsion's real in its laws atomic,

There needs to be suspense, a chance of lies.

Of my wealth I don't want to be cheated,

Of my love I want to be depleted.