Love is the Happiness that Results From Giving Your Heart Away
The Moment When All is Yes
Love
Love is more than a feeling,
More than a promise
Love is working all day
With the memory of a smile
Keeping your feet off the ground
It’s being the best you can be
Because the one you love deserves no less
It’s choosing to risk everything you have:
Your pride, your reputation, the fate of your heart
It’s borrowing heaven and an angel’s touch
In a glimpse of the eyes and the clasp of a hand
It’s looking into the other’s soul
And finding your home
A warm retreat when the cold of winter is in your heart
It’s wanting something enough to wait for it and
Work for it and fan every tiny flame until it burns warm & bright
Love knows who it wants and cherishes what it knows about them
It goes beyond and in spite of words
Endures the irritations and soothes the hurts
It’s worth the trouble
Worth the wait
Worth the worry
Love is the happiness that results from giving your heart away
Seeking nothing in return
It looks beyond the faults
And sees the good and the beautiful,
And by the act of loving, creates much of what it loves
Love is the magical feeling you get
When the extraordinary meets the ordinary
Love is a whisper that drowns the wind
The moment when all is yes
©Winsome Publishing 2009
Some Other Looks at Love
For a look at more of the poetic side of love you might enjoy When Love Loves You Back or Rapunzel's Gold... and if you want to stir up the passion, try Fanning the Flames of Love.