What is love?

What is love?

I am 50
I (should?) know what love is

I loved many people in my life
I love many people in my life everyday
and yet I ask

It is one of these words
like consciousness
and community
and truth
that we all know what they mean

Or do we?

These words are used and abused
until they lose their meaning
and we get confused

I have called abuse love too

Love if not a mere feeling
although it is also that

Love is the essence of this world
or so it seems to me

We never lack it
yet we don’t always feel it

We either let it flow
or we don’t
though often somewhere in between

Like a hose
it can have a kink in it
that blocks the flow

Love flows through me all the time

Love is me
I am Love.

And over my 50 years
I have blocked it
many times
sometimes I still do
but I remember much faster now
that love is me

And when it gets stuck
and does not flow
it is for me to let go
and release that kink in the hose

Love is me
love is you
love is everywhere and in everything

And when we open our hearts
and soften our body
we feel it
and then we know.