What is love?

Is it just an emotion passing by?

Something we capture with in the glimpse of a eye?

Is it just the physical feelings we share with another?

I speak not of the feelings for a

Father 

Mother

Sister

Friend

Brother

No, I speak of that for a possible mate!

What is in all that, what does it take?

When are we SURE it is real

not, something "fake"?

Not Something that will pass with the sunshine;

But something that will stand the test of time!

I thought I understood that concept once.

But a divorce later,

I had to Re-examine and Re-discover,

this emotion that at one time was

next to heaven.

When is forever, forever?

How long is till death do we part?

When do we say enough and part?

When that love is bad;

When it is ok to make a new start?

After how many broken promises and

broken hearts?

When is the time to reach out?

To end the endless lonely nights

To fill the gray void in the endless day

To take a chance

To say

To feel

For it to be real

To close the mind to past events

and trust they won't reappear.

When next I love I want to say;

I love you, and I trust our love will last,

Forever and a day, in a million ways,

again and again I will say

I Love you!

©2005 Tina Clark