"Love"

What is love?
What does it do?
What is its purpose in flogging my heart?

Tis not what I wanted
I do not desire to torment my heart
But is everything I yearn for

What is a tree?
Slow hard growth
What is a flower?
Swift soft flesh
Is love both? neither?

Love is patient
Love is kind
It does not begrudge

It is selfless
Everlasting
Unconditional
Selfish

Is love the need to see happiness on her face?
Despite your agony?
Or is it a need for her in your life?
Despite her cries to be let alone?

Love is many things
It is a desire to see that person smile
It is a selfish want for a companion

Love alone is strong enough
To move mountains
To swim the deepest oceans
To run the largest deserts

It is amazing
An amazing love
It can conquer all

Is it not also amazing
How love is the same path
As insanity?