Three Beasts

While walking through the deep

I found them fast asleep

A docent took my arm

Said they mean no harm

You see these forms of love

They're just looking for a home

There were within my sight

Three Beasts of pure delight 

Domesticated love is sought by one and all

Mothers, Dads, and siblings

catch you when you fall

It is strong and good, 

And seek we should 

The ultimate need

On this we all agree

It moves slow and easy 

Self-sacrifice is its fate 

Always there and never late

Object love however, is active all the time

People, things and scenes, 

The focus of the mind 

First it flirts 

Then makes you work 

And when it's acquired 

At once will snuff the fire 

Despised by some

It must pursue 

Needing something new 

Crazy love is the most beautiful to behold 

The least understood yet we seek it like gold 

This rare find 

Can take your mind 

So intense you lose your care 

You will follow it anywhere 

The strong might resist 

As soon as you think it's tame 

It'll overtake again. 

Don't wake that one, my docent said 

It is relentless 

I smiled and thanked him for the warning

As something followed us in the shadows