What is Love?

Love is creation

• as a fetus you are the fruit of love-making

Love is all encompassing

• when the tummy of your mummy is all around you

Love is deliverance from darkness into light

• probably your first thought as you were born

Love is warmth

• when as a child you feel safe in your parent’s proud embrace

Love is a motivator

• when your parents glow with pride as you learn new skills and tricks

Love is the pain of too much tenderness

• when you feel the first pangs of rejection

Love is the gushing rapids

• when your hormones are firmly in the driving seat and emotions are larger than life

Love is resolute

Love is resolute

• when your spirit is strong but your flesh weak and yet you yield not to the ways of the world

Love is the stale wine of yesterday’s feast

• when you wake up in a relationship beyond repair gone sour long ago

Love is the hope of a new dawn

• when you accidentally bump into your soul-mate and struggle with feelings you thought didn’t exist

Love is the eternal longing of the night for a new dawn

• when the soul-mate can’t linger any more and both of you have to return to your daily lives

Love is like walking on autumn leaves

• as you go through your chores and duties in your fifties and question “Was this it?”

Love is the gush of new life in the dead brook

• for some it is momentarily catching up with the 30 years younger person, for some it is the first grandchild, for some it is the discovery of an unknown passion and for some it is walking with one whom they never knew before

Love is a call, a whisper

• when you’ve journeyed from the east of your youth to the west of your sunset, and watch like a sentinel who dies first, your love or your belief. If love dies, some become the regret of never having been, never having lived, never having seen, never having breathed, never having been a thought in the mind of the creator. If belief dies, some say gleefully that they don’t need to believe, they know!

L