Thoughts on Love

"If you love someone, let him go.
If he comes back to you, he is yours;
If he doesn't, he never was."
"Love is wanting the good for another."


Love is the name of a feeling with many faces;
Some more intense than you could ever imagine.
Many are faces of pain and sorrow,
As many are of immeasurable joy.
But the one constant, never changing variable
Is that it never fails to take you to new places.

Those places include new heights to which you've never before been;
Things you've never experienced before.
What makes it so special is being with your beloved-
The one who makes you feel like you're on top of the world,
Who makes you feel like you can fly
To heights never before seen.

Love is a gift more precious than life itself.
True, it can be overwhelming because it's like nothing you'll ever experience.
It's a completely selfless, yet ever growing emotional reaction.
As we grow, we learn and our concept of love grows and changes.
It is not something we fall 'in' or 'out' of;
But something one has to live to answer the question...

The question which is answered in different degrees...
Love cannot be forced on someone and
It cannot be taken if the beloved doesn't want to give it.
You are in charge of the love you give,
But cannot control the love you get back.
It can be as empty as a well or as deep as the seas.

Love is always open arms.
It is a blind faith- giving all, yet expecting nothing in return.
This is the face of a love and joy beyond all others:
For one cannot be disappointed when he expects nothing;
And when given expectations,
Love has a face of pain and may even cause harm.

The measure of love you have is all you can give...
One cannot give what they don't have.
The foundation of love begins with yourself...
Once the discovery of who you are is made, you have love,
For they go hand in hand;
The discovery of one being the realization of both- for which we live.