Recklessness

Love,
not reason, is reckless.

Reason seeks out a profit,
but Love comes on strong, consuming herself,
unabashedly.

Yet in the midst of suffering,

Love proceeds straight-forward
and hard-surfaced like a millstone.
Having died to self-interest,
Love risks everything,
and asks for nothing.

Love gambles away every gift
God has ever bestowed.

--Rumi, Mathnawi, VI, 1967-70