What is love?

It brings a smile to my lips, a lift to my heart.
A flutter to the insides, joy to my soul. 
A feeling of connect that goes deep within,

Deeper than the oceans can hold within.

Tenderness galore, sweet as the spring

Freshness in outlook, seeing new things

A spring in my step, walking on air

Feelings galore, laying me bare.

A feeling, a desire, a craving to be?

A sense of completeness that lets me be?

A desire to take and give of its own

Complacent and secure, nothing torn?

A cry in the desert, ravaged by pain

Barrenness surrounding the heart therein

Forlorn, forsaken, pierced to the heart

Bleeding, an orphan that longs for the hearth.

Plummeting to the depths, the ravine deep

Yet cushioned by air, buoyant in sleep

Waking to experience the lightness within

The pain and the paradise, contained within.

Music I now hear, the pause before the note

The silence that tells a story of its own

Words left unsaid, gentle like a feather

The whisper of breath, heard by the other.

A feeling, a desire? More a decision to be

Giving to the other, whatever may be

In loving myself, finding meaning within

Compassion to be, to give and receive.

Quietly, serenely, nothing to prove

Yet feeling love in its myriad hues

A child, a parent, a lover, a friend

Love in every action, with no end.

A feeling…of rightness, a decision to be

Bottomless, fathomless, wide as the sea

An atom, a ripple, a wave that crests
If this is not love, what is love at best?

-       Ann Joseph

List of poems penned:
Blessed are thy ways oh Lord http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/blessed-are-thy-ways-o-lord.html
Life - an Illusion http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/life-illusion.html
An Ode to my mother - http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/11/an-ode-to-my-mother.html
Remembrances http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2012/12/remembrances.html
Aloneness http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2013/10/aloneness.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/moments.html

http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/when-love-finds-self.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/12/what-is-love.html
http://rapportinrelationships.blogspot.in/2014/11/the-dance-of-truth.html