Spike Milligan

Eurolove

Eurolove - meaning Summary

Unchanging Love, Aimless Motion

The speaker insists their love cannot diminish, using compact similes to show attachment. A sudden reversal follows: the loved one reduces that devotion to dust, scattering the speaker’s beliefs and leaving them disoriented. Imagery of wings and movement conveys a new, purposeless motion — energy remains but direction is lost. The poem contrasts enduring feeling with the emptiness that rejection or betrayal creates.

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I cannot and I will not No, I cannot love you less Like the flower to the butterfly The corsage to the dress She turns my love to dust my destination empty my beliefs scattered: Diaspora! Who set this course - and why? Now my wings beat - without purpose Yet they speed.............

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