Love

This is LONG - I Apologize, I hope you read till the end though :)
A recent Note I posted on FB

Love

As far back as I can remember I've always been consumed with that notion

and looking into history and generations before me I see that pattern has always been there

Love.

We need it.

I've heard people deny it, spit at its name!

even claim that they have been HURT by LOVE before!

How ridiculous!

This morning I felt Love that left me ashamed of myself

ashamed of those before me

and those even to come after me.

How can we Love when we don't even know what it is?

My generation claims to Love

we haven't even scratched its surface and yet we're so convinced

What is Love?

would the love you say you have, know everything about you and still Love you?

would that love be privy even to your deepest, darkest intentions and still love you?

would that love love you inspite of yourself?

would love watch you rise, fall and crumble like dirt and still claim to love you?

would it love you inspite of who you'll ever be?

asking nothing of you, expecting nothing from you.

and yet we say we love..

or worse, we're in love.

Emotions rise and fall, suddenly, unexpectedly, without warning

thoughts flow in and out of one another

we're lost even before we're found

and when we're found we feel lost

we hold on to one thing at a time

proclaiming in our heads and to each other: that's life!

and then unexpectedly emotions come and we deem it love

so sure, so certain - until it's lost.

What about Love that is constant?

a thread that follows us through time

Love that remains even after the high is gone

and still remains when the rains come?

Love that understands 

that because we feel really good now we'll push it aside

and then when the emotions die we'll pull it off the ground

love that understands that.

Love that doesn't need you to feel

or have any emotions that validate it

Love that could really do without you

and yet chooses to remain with you.

Love that doesn't need you

but knows that you need it

so it stays with you.

Never leaves you.

We hold on to each other desperately needing this love

and many times we get it wrong

we expect too much from one another

then we're dissapointed when one of us fails.

So we curse love and each other,

meanwhile Everything we do is an attempt

an attempt to fulfill this need

Sometimes we're unaware of it.

We need something to remain

even after we've done everything that we've done

something needs to be constant

because we change and the world changes

something reassuring

even after everyone we know is gone

something has to be there!

And something is there: Love 

You won't find it in another's face

search all you want within the world

but the deeper you dig

the further you fall.

Love goes deeper than we can understand

the greatest of the greatest could theorize it

but the truth of the matter is we'll never understand it.

But Love simply says, seek and you will find