Define parenthesis love

I cannot define love
It is a complicated word.
So I cannot define just the word.
I have to define the space this word exists in.

Love is a room.
It is lit by a solitary bulb,
its light diffused so that it falls softly,
like a luminous net,
upon the hushed greens and earth tones of the furniture.

In this room is a bed.
and there are lovers.
Clad in rumpled sheets and shared sweat
lipstick smears and hairs out of place
Half blind and terrified

I am not one of them.
Neither are you.
They are our ideals.
I will put her on a pedestal

When it is the perfect.time
warmed by the fading heat
disconnected, we breath as one
When everything is said
and nothing is secret
it will bloom

Blinking to life like a firefly in the evening
to illuminate our sleeping faces
In the space between and inside,
My mind gives it the shape of a dancer
Unbelievably small
Spinning on an invisible thread

To capture the lilting echo of a G sharp
Or the dying light of the sun
Trap perfection in a bottle
Write sonnets on a grain of sand
The smallness and perfection staggered me

The love I know lives and dies in that moment
What is left sustains us
Till it doesn't any more


My hope is to one day keep that space between moments alive
Cos I think that's when I'd finally know true love