Love Locked Straight Into The Seine

"The Things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.." 

                                                  Josephine Baker

I recently began reading about the LOVE PADLOCK ritual.  Apparently, most Love Padlocks began popping up around the early 2,000s. However, many padlock locations are dated back to pre World War II.  Each location's origin has different meaning according to local legends, but each one of them carry the same locked message:
L O V E 
  In Fengyuan, Taiwan love padlocks upon an overpass of the city's train station are in pairs.  The "Wish Locks" are believed to be accumulating the positive magnetic field energy generated by the trains which pass underneath.  With each passing train?  Wishes are fulfilled :)

In Montevideo, Uruguay a Love Padlocked fountain reads "The legend of this young fountain tells us that if a lock with the initials of two people in love is placed in it, they will return together to the fountain and their love will be forever locked"  

The Pont des Arts pedestrian bridge across the Seine River has become the "Love Lock of Paris" As one locks their love to the bridge dating back to Napoleon circa 1804,  it's then important to SEAL the Deal by throwing the key into the Seine..

" If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever."  The Crow

Love Padlocked Trees of Moscow

Maybe no matter who we are, where we're from or what our background, we all know that LOVE  is fragile & beautiful & ever fleeting.
 When you find that feeling?
You want to lock it in your heart
for safe keeping
& throw away
 the key... 

                                             straight
                                                     into
                                                          the
                                                             Seine;)

Hepburn Hugs & Ric Ocasek Dreams

xo

Birdee Bow