Defining love

No point to defining love

Because its the study of a lifetime

It's like defining gravity or using it

To fly off a cliff into the air on a warm summer day under a kite

Physicists argue about gravity

Perhaps it is space bent, or perhaps

Just an equation that Newton understood

And college students scribble on the margins of their textbooks

But gravity like love,

Effects everyone and no one really understands

I can see love

Of all the things I asked for this was the

Strangest answer to a

Casual request

I said to the universe, what is love?

To ask, I first had to understand that I

Really didn't know

And that took a few

Decades

But then suddenly it occurred to me that perhaps I was

Playing with peanuts playdough princess-peas and there were

Diamonds to be had

So I asked and suddenly I saw it

Everywhere on people's heads and aimed

At their closest and strangest

Affections

And now that I can see it I

Still don't understand

But I know that it is real

So I guess that is a start

Let me say this

People have it often

And it always seems to be shared, it connects them to something

Like the universe is stitched together in

Invisible flickering beams

And you can do something with it

If you point it at someone,

It changes them

Like a death ray

In reverse

Maybe that will help you

To find a cliff

And fly