When one loves indiscriminately.
Little pieces of himself get torn away.
Hardly noticing this loss,
He tells himself the gain is worth the trade.
So.
To read;
or to be read?
To think kindly of yourself;
or to act in ways to which others might think kindly of you?
To chose the complex path,
Or to lose sight of the valuable,
For that which is immediate?
One must be careful not to lose a bet with himself,
that which he cannot repay.