Every lover's lament has an element of boasting.
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The Lover runs away.
Some live in a state of passionate indecision.
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.
Guilt stirs me, but only to self-pity.