Sunday, February 14, 2016

So what is love?

Love is chemistry, touch, serendipity, disappointment, endurance, nourishment, longing, affirmation, irrationality, magic, molecules, obsession, romance, hormones, innocence, culture, wisdom and deceit.

Love is energy, action, pining, holding, letting go, persisting, flowering, becoming more human, losing yourself, gaining yourself, seeing a different world, giving up and getting back, reveling in being, growing into the complete self.

Love is in a hug and in an orgasm. Love is in being and in doing. Love is in the presence and in the absence. Love is in the first cry of the newborn and in the last whisper of the dying. Love is in the good act in the face of evil.

All that said, we don't really know what love is or we would stop writing poems, stories and songs about it. But if you chase it down relentlessly, it reveals itself and gifts you with self-revelation.

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