t e s t i m o n i a l s

​This beautiful love poem was written by one half of a successful love story. At In Human Company, we don't charge membership fees -- why would we? We're hoping you settle down with the love of this, and many other lifetimes, and that you cease to need our services. 

It might take a lot of work (and honesty!) to get there, but it's worth it, as this traditional Tengu poem illustrates.

(In this poetic form, a number in parentheses at the end  means that every line which is a multiple of that number is to be read as in sequence, as a separate poem enclosed inside the first one. It looks as though this author hasn't chosen to do that in this instance.)

  1. Breathing, too, felt
  2. Pointless, hours stretched
  3. Into unnatural shapes
  4. All magical and super-
  5. Fluously sinister, that was my
  6. Whole life, remember how intensely
  7. Anxious I seemed the night we met? Why?
  8. Natural creatures should
  9. Never feel shy around each other.
  10. There is an old tradition in my
  11. Village, on the day before all souls, you
  12. Write the name of your
  13. Worst enemy and drop it in a chest
  14. And prey. The secret magic in the world will do the rest.
  15. That was the ritual that taught me to be
  16. Kind. In the box
  17. Were all the enemies I hated, I thought
  18. my hate must be the reason I prevailed
  19. But no, my love for you is why they failed.
  20. And you will be given everything. 

          (4)
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