Love is light bathed warm and sweet

Where nothing resides but calm and heat

Love is filling the darkest night

Where shadows fade behind the light

Love is comfort from the pain

Hiding within us profound and vain

Love is removing expectant scope

And in its place acceptance and hope

Love is arousal deep and pure

Submission and surrender becoming the law 

Love is a gift of joy so rare

Precious and generous and filled with care

Love is the courage to accept the self

Allowing another to share in your wealth

Love is exploited by greed and gain

Another’s hurt inflicting the pain

Love is fragile, delicate, raw

Easily extinguished by the slightest flaw 

Love is destruction of walls we build

Melting down til they are killed

Love is freedom from the dark

Connecting, growing, expanding, marked

Love is the secret if only you knew

That I give this gift of love to YOU.