A Study on Definition

To love: an attachment, a bond, a connection;

The red thread around your ankle

The whisper of compelling, wanting, urging

A battle you fight because you know you must win the war

A wall you build to protect, adore, protect

To be loved: the elation, the solace, the trust;

A perpetual, resounding surety

The body that holds you, keeps you, warms you

The soul that lives in you to give company to your own

An ever-beating rhythm in never-ending cacophony

And to be in love: sun-storms and permafrost and a black hole all at once;

The deafening silence that rides on the coattails of catastrophe

Ashes and dust and the shield that makes you untouchable

The thunder of an ever-expanding universe, a centrifuge

That you see, you feel, you know, and so you move until you can't

(and even then you keep going).