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Love is just an abstract idea

And one need not be a seer

To see a mere idea does no one any good

Although they’ll all stand up and say they have love in every neighborhood

Where they sell all the drugs, beat one another down

And have verbally abused in every way they could

Because they have not learned

Or else they have spurned

Love used in a practical way

As an example I might say

To let your neighbor pass in quiet and peace

Something which would not annoy them in the least

Is a practical way to show love

Or not begging and borrowing for a mere convenience

Is another practical way I’m thinking of

To refuse to say things in a tactless way

Is another way of showing brotherly love

Where instead unkindness would lay

To support an environment of gentleness with a smile

Where the opposite contains hard words and frowns all the while

Is another way of expressing practical love

Which at its platonic best contains all of the above

Because if its not made practical

The very thing you’re feeling is selfish, useless and not complete love

Because true acts of love is almost always an emotion

Which completes a beneficial act

While having the emotion alone remains only a narcissistic act

Which soothes you alone (only you)- And thats a fact

Its mainly selfish to look upon your lover with that glow of love in your eye

I recommend when you get that narcissistic feeling that you hug them close

And massage them throughly on the back (A beneficial act)

And true love would then be nigh