What is Love?

What is love? Dare I ask

I was told it was a feeling that was

unmatched

A feeling that was masked 

until it was too late.

 

What is love? Dare I ask

Is it happiness? Is it pain? Is it overrated?

Is it a feeling that I'm missing

or is it time being wasted?

 

What is love? Dare I ask

Does anyone have the answers?

I've only ever been in love twice

and in those two times I had to pay

a price

Now my desire for love has turned

into fright.

 

What is love? Dare I ask

Is it adjusting to time? Or is it passing along 

with it?

Is it something that'll last forever?

Or something that could end any minute?

 

Perhaps love is passion?

...obsession?

Someone you can't live without

What is life if you haven't loved?

To me love is your greatest strength or

your deepest regret

Is that definition of love?

Dare I ask?

 

"What is love?"

The universal question

...and common misconception

 

What I thought was love...was only an 

impression...an illusion

Love isn't manipulative or suffocation

...nor is it a feeling

It isn't an emotion but rather

a state of being

Love is indescribable 

...it lacks definition 

You can only determine 

what love isn't 

Love is infinite-it's what we need to 

survive

Love is what you make me feel 

Love is you and I

Love is us

To the question I once dared to ask

...that's the definition of love.

-Emily B.