I thought, tonight; perhaps, to write of Love... but, where should I commence?
Avoiding platitudes and clichés... hackneyed phrases, glib pretence.
Separating Love from Lust; close intertwined, but not the same...
the one, a sweet, embracing glow; the other... hot, consuming flame.
Each, with their time and place; but, then... each one, so easy to confuse
with the other;
is this love?... or sweet distraction, to amuse
each other,
for an hour or so?... soft whisperings that so entreat?
Declarations of true love... or just seduction, smooth and sweet?

Far better men than I, have tried... the poets and philosophers;
the songwriters and sages, stretching back across the drifting years...
to capture the true essence of what love is really all about;
this sweetest of contagions... such a heady mix of joy and doubt.
But, I suppose that I would say that love is patient... love is kind.
It bears all things, believes all things; and nothing, but the best will find.
Love hopes all things, endures all things, and endlessly forgives pretence;
Is born of faith, exists on hope... dies only from indifference.

Love is tolerant... non-judgemental; Love will never try to find
faults and foibles others notice...
it's quite true that Love is blind.
Love takes you for what you are... not what it might want you to be;
Love will never question... Love is unaware of jealousy.
Love is when you care for someone more, than for yourself,
you care;
Love will always find a way... Love is always somewhere, there;
waiting to ensnare your heart, just when you least expect it to...
and, when it chooses you, my friend... then, there is nothing you can do.

Except, to fall beneath the spell Love weaves all softly round the heart;
except to listen to the siren song, as common sense departs.
For those who would be sensible about Love... hardly ever find
Love, as it is meant to be... this sweet confusion of the mind.
For Love is the safe haven of the deepest feelings, deepest fears;
held safe within your lover's hands... thus shared, all shadows disappear.
And, if you cannot be with the one that you truly love... be kind;
Just love the one that you are with... you never know what you might find.

If you have Love,
you really don't need anything else;
but, if you don't have Love...
it doesn't really matter what else you do have.