Love

Love is knowing you might wait an eternity in darkness
before you can be with them but being ok with that
because they have to be in your life somehow.

Its being carried by the currents of an invisible passion
that you feel all throughout your body.
Love is the feeling of looking in their eyes
and being derailed by their crooked smile
and knowing as distracted as you are,
there's nowhere you'd rather be.

Its the electrical current racing through your blood
by the accidental touch-
the lightening strike piercing your heart
expanding it as your skin brushes theirs.


Love is the wildfire consuming your soul and body
because as free as you are- it becomes worth it
to hand some of your freedom away to be bound to them-
to be with them as they claim your heart.

Love is being willing to burn in the fires of Hell
if thats what it takes to keep them from being hurt.
Its knowing that the only pain you can't wait out, or cure
knowing they hurt and being unable to take away the pain

Love is the way you can meet their eye
and be willing to fight forever to deserve them
because in that one glance- neither of you have to speak-
you just get each other.

When they are your other half-
when they have been the support holding you above the waves
and the reason grounding you by their side
when you wanted to run away-
you can't exist without them/
When they are your everything-
ou'd die for them because its better than living without them,
without half of you.

I see the world at fifteen
and there's so many reasons
to be angry- to hate- to cry
for the people who have no one
and who are completely alone.

But despite being in refugee camps
or trapped in a cycle of gang war
- or being a victim of lost innocence
people still love- they fight for each other
and they don't give up on life because
of who they love.

regardless of what kind

Love is the most powerful force
humanity  has to wield
strength that keeps dying mothers
alive for their children
and why people sacrifice themselves
living in poverty for a life with a partner
by their side.


People love each other enough to
wait to be together- because all they
can see is each other.



Love can be the bridge binding people
from different worlds -opening up tolerance
Love heals rifts and scars- oozing sorrow
-the most powerful weapon against the tragedies of today-


And we try to take away the right to have that love recognized?
Love is a gift- a force that no one can control-
my heart beats- I don't tell it too- I don't choose it
Just as you can't choose to love someone because it just is
-out of our control-

I believe in love's ability to be the catalyst for change
marriage is only the binding of two people- who already love each other
Love is stronger than any mark I could leave on the world
stronger than you too- you can't take away its power by taking away marriage
but the fact you try is senseless and cruel- to challenge someone's validity
make a difference to someone else in this world