Love. It blocks the far-seeing eyes and locks the once-open mind with a limitless energy that wastes itself in an explosion of glory.

Love is strength and it is weakness. In bearing golden fruit it requires constant attention, many are jealous of its dangerous gifts.

Love, is it a brief flare of light in the empty halls of time or the eternal torches that light the way down the endless corridor of life?

Love changes, challenges the world. Every bright star in the heavens shines for love and love alone. But, as they shine for it, it shines against them, for it is jealous and wills to be first in all things.

Love is a shadow that hides in plain view. It is never seen until the last moment, it is the simplest to lose it upon its discernment. Obscurity is the deadliest of all dangers; it wraps its lethal coils snake-like, slowly slithering close in the guise of tradition.

Love is predictably capricious. Will it conquer you, chasing you through life’s corridors? Will you conquer love, proceeding sedately with long stops at favorite doors?

Love is what you make it. It can shine so bright, in its awakening moments, brighter than a supernova. Like a candle, it flickers in the slightest draft, of conflict, of strife, of simple silence.

Love acts as a filter, a rose-tinted one, a black-tinted one, which transforms the self. Joy becomes sadness and sadness joy in a joining of painful ecstasy. Self is no longer content aloof; it strives to become one with twos.

Love can never be of one mind. Can you accept the need to be another? Are you able to toss the celestial dice and follow an instrument other than the head?

Love is a gentle smile, a comforting touch. A shared experience that brings a feeling comparable to bathing in light, inside and out, and feeling it suffuse your being with a calm heat.

Love endures. On occasion, participants are traded or lost, change or disappear, but it can never truly be destroyed. In the giving and the receiving, it grows, and in the taking and losing, it grows.

Love. In milder forms, it is known as happiness, friendship, accomplishment.