For people who hate each other,
there are plenty of things to do.
They have warplanes and missiles,
they can alter the air. They can
communicate with one another.
The whole world seems devoted
to the production of things
for them to fight with.

But if two people
living in such a world
should fall in love with each other
where are their big machines?
What factory devotes itself
to making the massive things
that they might use to impress one another?

But I forgot that love
does not need too much power.
Love is timeless, and makes
no demands of the future;
it does not need to be seen
and heard all the time,
it does not need to win everything.
And there are no contests of blood or fire
that could prove it worthy.