When I ask you, what is love?
You tell me that you don't know what it is.
You tell me that you don't even want to think about it.
When I press,
You tell me that it is the filthy rutting of hot sweaty bodies,
intent on creating more of their own stinking kind,
by an abhorrent exchange of vile fluids,
that ought to be kept where they are.
Lady, that is not what love is.
I will tell you what Love is:
Love is a brightness in the heart that erupts like Vesuvius when your beloved is near.
Love is a clear stream, that cools my brow when I am fevered.
Love is a sudden joy, a secret smile, for no reason, none at all.
Love is a madness, which has gripped me at full moon and now, moon waning, still does not diminish.
Love is a connection, like a shining silver cord, eternal and magical, stretching, unbreakable between myself and my beloved.
Love is an energy that ebbs and flows along it, like the sacred sea.
Love is a new spring day, when flowers seem to say hello, birds speak sweet songs of deep meaning in my ear and the world is bright and clear and joyful.
Love is knowing and caring for another, beyond the imagining of any knowing or caring for oneself.
Love is a thing transcending time, transcending space and it is limited neither by death, nor distance.
Love is a storm, from which there is no shelter, where every crash of thunder deafens, every lightning bolt strikes deep into the heart.
Love is
a torrential river,
a tornado,
a hurricane,
a typhoon,
all at once,
inside me.
Love is a chaos,
that has infested my mind,
entrained my thoughts,
in one direction.
Love is a feeling, so exhilarating,
so joyful,
so exuberant,
so potent,
so, exactly what you need,
that sometimes,
you feel that you might die,
from it.
When it is not there,
you feel that you might die,
from its lack.
So you can't win.
It is therefore, by all the rules
of logic, only sensible to choose Love,
If it gives you a choice,
since you might as well be so joyful,
that you think you might die,
than miserable and think it too.
Love (so I have been told) is a single ear
Of wheat, on a silver platter. But I have never quite understood that one myself.
Love is finding the lost pieces of yourself
in another person.
And discovering that parts of you are also their lost pieces.
Love is a caterpillar, weaving a chrysalis.
Love is a chrysalis weaving a butterfly,
Love is a butterfly, filling and drying its
wings for the first time.
Love is that butterfly, rising and fluttering with nervous first wing-beats, into the air.
Love is the eternal connection between two beings, that emanates from the core of their souls.
Love is a caress, a kiss, a smile, a sweet word, any one of these, or all.
And Lady, I tell you,
that sometimes,
the sweaty rutting of hot bodies
entering each other,
and the lusty passion
and the flow of fluids,
in a moment of pure pleasure,
that too can be Love.
But sometimes it's not.
In fact, mostly its not.
And I tell you, finally, that,
if you need to be told,
then you shall never know it.