What Love Is

This is a poem about my thoughts on love.

What is love?

Some people say it's a beautiful thing, 

Others say it can lead to a life of regret, 

It is one of the most powerful emotions we hold. 

Love is often taken as a misleading, 

One can think he or she is in love, 

When really, all you feel is lust. 

It takes time to distinguish what you really feel.

Love is like a building, 

You lay down the foundation, 

Learn to grow and strengthen the bond, 

Then over time, that bond becomes unbreakable. 

Love is just more than a word or an emotion, 

It is something that we all hold and desire, 

For without love, all that we will have left, 

Is an empty soul and a heart full of sorrow.

Author's Note

Please, comments and critique are welcome.

Reviews

[RunningWithToddlers]

I am going to watch you, this is just lovely.

[Tania]

Beautiful words 👌..........

[Mike]

i liked it. i agree love is often misunderstood. and then not explored deep enough by many.

[Ranger Nadaly]

I like the poem, although it does seem like a speech.

[melissa]

This is amazing poem keep up the great work and keep sending me more to read i love reading them

[FlamingPhoenix]

This is pretty. I like the story contained within the poetry and your words hold the power of undeniable truth! Thank you for sharing.

[Coyote Poetry]

Love is very good. Just need the right person. Took me 36 years to find true love. Need two people in the same place with the same desire. Hard to do. Can happen. But writers and Poets, musicians and artist are hard to hold down and control. A very good topic in the excellent poetry.
Coyote

[daemok]

-and then of course there's obsession. good piece.

[Aethereal]

Like pleasure and pain, the referent for the word “love” is a private experience that takes place inside of the brain. It’s just as much a survival trait as pleasure and pain because without love it would have been nearly impossible for the human race to have survived for the last hundred thousand years. It takes such a long time to nurture human children that there needs to be some kind of evolved psychological mechanism to continue to motivate parents to care for their mates and children over the long term. We must also realize that the emotion of love triggers a psychosomatic response in the brain that releases mood changing endorphins that may be addictive. Both to love and to be loved releases these pleasurable mood changing endorphins. It’s impossible to describe in words what love, pleasure, pain, hate, is to someone who has suffered brain damage to the extent that they are incapable of feeling it. Brain chemistry is destiny!