What good is in pursuing
Potential relationships?
Leading to one's undoing
Such presents needless hardships.

Unable to turn aside
From the bottomless tumbling,
Why does one's heart open wide,
For the spirit's battering?

What fruits are gained in this game,
A labor of frustration?
Merely a worldly acclaim—
What a joyless obsession!

Though delved in dark emotions,
There is no alternative.
Led by the heart's suggestions,
One is rendered a captive.