Love is simply friendship, set on fire. ~unknown

A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are ~unknown

They say that anger is just love disappointed.
They say that love is just a state of mind
~Eagles

It's written about, it's sung about, we watch stories about it in movies, and dream about it at night, alone in bed. Love. A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person; a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection; sexual passion or desire. Love up, for love, in love, make love. Tenderness, fondness, predilection, warmth, passion, adoration. A deep and enduring emotional regard. It consumes so many conversations, and thoughts, and dreams.

What is love? Is love the uncontrollable desire for his body? Is it an all consuming, absolute, uncontrollable emotion? Is it life altering and fervent? Or is love simple, and uncomplicated, effortless? Is it solid, and comfortable, and pure? Recurring and unyielding? Is love the uncontrollable yearning that devours you, until you both are left feeling empty and drained, and the passion fizzles away and you slowly fade into the future? Or is love a craving for companionship fulfilled; a connection between two souls, support, encouragement, and security; everlasting? Is love a night filled with bodily passion, or is it a night spent holding each other after a long day? Is it vulnerability, or strength? Is love turning your back on him, and allowing him to go his own way, because all you truly want is him to be happy? Or is it clinging and fighting, because the wounds of the battle would be worth the reward of having him love you back? Is it real and genuine and unadulterated? Or is it unreliable, weak, and insubstantial? Is it true, or fake? Authentic or counterfeit? Forged in reality or a dream? Is love the stuff life is made of, or is it the stuff life is constructed around?

We all know what love is, and yet when I try to describe it, words fail. A definition is lacking, and without definition, how can it be real. And if it is not real, why do I feel so lost without it? Is love simply a state of mind, could I just easily say, "I am in love," and have it be true? Or is it the need to feel loved in return that I am really craving? And if that is the case, how do I achieve this state of mind? Reciprocation or conference? What does it mean when I say, "I love you?" Do I mean I have profound feelings for the person you are,

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