However Love Takes Us (Love Lessons)

However love takes us--  

We are born.  We open our lungs.  
We scream the "unknown known"  
The seedling of unconscious despair --  
 
However love takes us--  
Happy and young and backseat carefree  
Butterflies in the minutiae of want  
The first set of passion's blood wings  
 
However love takes us--  
Unhinged and breaks us  
From the chrysalis of childhood need  
Seeking unbidden love as all about  
We weave the shadowy web of greed  
 
However love takes us--  
Seduces and awakens us to  
The feast or famine Father Time  
We regret to inform you  
Don't wish to alarm you  
Love is deaf, dumb and blind  
 
However love takes us--  
It's the myth and the mirth of heaven  
Where fear and folly constrain  
Two lovers to endorse  
                     the inexorable force  
Forged by the crucible of pride and pain.