Tidal Waves

While most loves grow slowly over time and develop on peaceful seas, the best sort, there is another form of love that is sudden and strong but inexplicably undeniable. Like a tidal wave it rips away reason and logic. It can occur in seconds and grip its subjects in  jaws that shake everything else off but the overwhelming need to follow its course. This is very troublesome love and, fortunately, one that is a rare event.  It is usually destructive but that doesn't stop its force. Like a tsunami, its power defies even fair play. The persons caught on the tide of it, are helpless. You have seen dramas where, on the altar, at a wedding, the bride or groom says, I can't, instead of, I do and runs down the aisle into the arms of their true love. That's a rather shabby example, but something akin, does happen in the tidal love situation. Its aftermath is not pretty. The ruins of such sudden change leaves a lot of detritus to clean up and what is rebuilt, if it can be or is, is never the same.  There are casualties and scars and open wounds that never quite heal. Divorce, death and affairs are not exactly the same. The latter can be dealt with by people who work in that sphere. The tidal wave sort of love is not as simply excused. Unless one has experienced it, there is no way of understanding it fully. An affair is usually a temporary matter and when the heat dissapates, it's over. but the TWL kind tosses its lovers into a whole new and uneasy world. Romeo and Juliet came to a tragic end in their story of unaccepted love but in the real world, it must survive in spite of the "slings and arrows" . The best part of TWL is the lovers. They have something rare, beautiful and larger than themselves but they have each other indeed, and that is all they need.