Love Unchosen— a song of duty and restraint скачать в хорошем качестве

Love Unchosen— a song of duty and restraint

“Love Unchosen” is a Gorean song about devotion restrained by vows—and the quiet cost of choosing honor over desire. This poem took first in the 2024 En 'kara Poetry Contest. In the fictional world of Gor (think Counter Earth), En 'kara is first month of the Gorean calendar and ais ihe occasion for the major annual fair. Stylistically, the performance is spoken word with some meditative, musical interludes. This is neither a song of rebellion nor of consummation. It is a meditation on restraint: on lives shaped by promises freely given and faithfully kept. Set within the ordinary machinery of Gor—ledgers balanced, silks kept white, duties observed—the song follows two figures bound not by secrecy or defiance, but by honor. A scribe, loyal to his merchant’s trust. A kajira, sworn to her owner’s word. Their connection exists in what remains unspoken: kindness offered without claim, ink deliberately left unspilled, dreams that never cross into daylight. Desire is present—but deliberately contained, valued for its truth rather than acted upon. The song draws on Gorean themes of hierarchy, promise, and service, but approaches them from the inside—as lived choices rather than abstractions. Submission here is not spectacle, and authority is not cruelty. Both are framed through consent, obligation, and self-knowledge. “Love Unchosen” rests in that tension— between longing and law, between dream and duty, between the selves we are at night and the vows we keep by morning. It is a quiet song, meant to be heard slowly.