Love over Death

Do you believe that LOVE is more powerful than DEATH? Why or why not?

  

"Whose face do I behold mirrored

Upon the water I am about to drink?

I dare not to drink the vision that I prolong!

If I die, bury me not

AT the cross of San Felix: bury me

Under your fingernails, that I may

be eaten along with every food you eat;

That I may be drunk along with every cup 

you drink."

- Laji 97 by Florentino Hornedo

Yes, I believe that love is more powerful than death even though love can’t stop death from occurring. Likewise, death cannot separate us from our loved ones or it cannot take away love in our lives. As what Mr. Florentino Hornedo’s poem Laji 97 says, he uses water and food to make the abstractedness of love concrete. He defines love as eternal in our temporary lives. Love, like water and food, is consumed. Even though water is evaporated and food is digested (means to say that sometimes we tend to lose those precious things) the essence or the nutrients that we can get from them are still in our body and they give us energy. Love is the source of life. Love sustains people. Love is enough.

I would like to end this by quoting sentence from the article that I have read in Psychology Today, posted last July 2012: “The BOND of LOVE TRANSCEND DEATH.”