L, O, V, E a Construct of Simplicity

That feeling, the burning in your chest. Your eyes dilated. Words and all logical reason depleted.

The air, thick, full, and heavy. Hanging in the air is that feeling. I'm pretty sure it starts with an L.

L, Like "long strands of my soul intertwined with yours."

Or maybe it stands for "lengthy parts of my day spent pondering on my attraction towards you."

Yet, a construction of functioning words picked from just one set of vocabulary, from just one language, from one lexicon. It isn't enough.

It's not enough to describe every single feeling nor emotion one can feel towards a person. Not even all four-hundred seventy-thousand words of the English language are enough to describe emotions as strong as this.

This emotion which we describe in only four letters, the second letter being O.

Like "Oh how I ponder your existence, oh how beautiful you are, Oh how stunning and oh how incomprehensible your pristine and clean soul is."

Or is the meaning different? Could it be, "Olympus, the house of gods, the myths and legends that held up society oh so long ago, yet that house of gods is less powerful than emotions felt for you. Zeus's lightning couldn't keep this emotion at bay for it is too powerful."

And even with letters like O, human comprehensibility surpasses our own language. Our understanding of human emotions surpasses the available expressibility of words.

Emotions are what create words, yet even within the most expressive of letters, the most complex social construct ever, the English lexicon. one can still not share their full emotions with just letters like the letter v.

The third letter of that word, a word that fills stomachs with caterpillars that form into majestic beautiful butterflies.

What could this letter stand for? Maybe it means "validity is what I feel around you, like my emotions matter and are cared for, like I'm seen and heard."

Or does it perchance mean, "vehemence is what I feel around you. A powerful passion that fuels one's need for another being that contains life. A feeling that one cannot live without the other. Like a soul bond tied by the strings of fate."

V, one of the least common letters of the English vocabulary, yet used in such powerful ways can suffice a minimal explanation of this feeling.

But there is one more letter, remember there are four letters the word that represents this emotion is made of.

Four letters, that can be expanded upon infinitely, four letters that can be interchanged to form such beautiful notes of melodious compliments spewing from one's mouth. Four letters that no matter how they are arranged cannot completely suffice for this strong emotion.

This last letter is E.

E, maybe it stands for. "Every second of my waking and every second I sleep I think of you."

Or maybe it stands for, "evergreen trees, the trees that stay bright and colorful during the coldest winter months, and the trees that even in the toughest of weathers don't compete with the brightness you shine with. It doesn't compete with the color and life you leave a trail of everywhere you go."

E, the most common letter of the English alphabet. Yet what it stands for is not specified. So many things it could be, it wraps my brain in an enigma, a conundrum, a puzzle I may never solve or complete.

A puzzling puzzle that we ponder in the night yet may never find an answer to, for there is not one answer to this puzzle of words constructed by society and crafted by our ancestors. There are instead many answers to this, many answers left unthought of, many answers found and explained, and many answers experienced yet cannot be put into words.

This feeling this burning in one's chest. It's what we as humans call love. Love, a societal construct made up by the human mind, is a word that technically doesn't exist, but the same is true for all other words. Love is a word too simple to explain itself. Love isn't fully explained by any amounting of words because the feeling is to big, to powerful, to meaningful.

26 letters, making 470,00 words, creating 1 English language, out of 7,151 languages. Yet even if the human brain could comprehend all of those languages it wouldn't be enough. One could perceive a vocabulary with more words than double the stars in our universe, but it wouldn't be enough to describe such a complex emotion, yet we simplify it down to 4 letters. L O V E, love.