Lilting

What is love?

What is love?

What does that word mean?

So many things

And yet we have reduced it

Reduced it to nothing

We use it

We break it

We lose it

Yet

If it was not misused

What would love be?

A mother gazing at her child

A child and their pet

A girl and a boy

A man and a woman

Two best friends

Well

Love is everything

Love

When not misused

Is just beauty of the heart

True love

Is pure kindness

And fondness

Of someone

Or something

We all need love

But each a different type

And when we know what type

What type of love our heart yearns for

Then we can find it

A child wants a pet

A new wife wants a child

And I want

What do I want?

I don’t know

I say to myself

But with my mind not my heart

That I have parents to love me

And friends

Especially the best one

The new one

And I have pets

So I have all the love

That I need

Or could possibly want

Right?

Right?

Right?

But is it true

Is it enough?

I want to say it is

I want to be happy

With what I have

I want to be satisfied

And not greedy

But my heart

Despite my efforts

To keep it hidden

And silent

Keeps nudging me

And subtly telling me

That I need

And that I want

More

But I wish