What is Love

What is Love?

Love is unscheduled fun
in the middle of the day
Taking chances, inviting a stranger
to join you and play.

Love is giving all you have got
and then some
With no thought
of what will come back around your way.

Love is having the courage to say "Yes"
With no guarantee of how things will work out
Love is full of glee and good times
                             And some times

Love is a deep breath instead of a shout.

Love is there after the party
The embrace after the break down
Unable to do anything love will hold the space.
Love is the resilience to stay and offer grace.

Love is the strength to stand up to something bigger than you
                                                           Smarter than you
Not knowing what you are going to do.

Love acknowledges your pain
and still reaches out again and again and again.
Despite lack of gain.

Most of all
Love is responsibility
Your personal accountability

Love is the acceptance
That you did the right or the wrong thing
Or worse - That you did nothing
         Not ONE thing
No thing.

Love is in each tear that comes
Realizing we cannot undo what's been done.

Love banishes contempt of self and others -
Love coaxes you out of bed when all you want
To do is hide under the covers.
Love cleans out those metaphorical closets
With understanding and compassion
It disassembles our composites.

Love humbly puts down piousness.
Love is the apology behind the righteousness.

Love - you can apply it liberally - no need to ration
Once you start giving it out it multiplies
With love there is no subtraction
The supply is infinite
As long as you are not ambivalent.

Love turns your anantomy
into a vessel for spiritual alchemy.

Love understands          
         The madness
         The sadness
         The badness
Inside of us all

Love forgives - releases - uplifts it all.

Love repairs calamity.
Love outlives tragedy.
Love is the remedy.