*VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL!*

This piece isn't an exact poem but a free verse cum prose, a format I usually don't write in. My random thoughts about LOVE, something I'm too inexperienced with, yet have tried a hand at defining it.

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Has anyone ever been able to define love? It doesn't need to be, for it is self explanatory. Love isn't a single, constricted feeling but a combination of various emotions, subtle or strong, that strike different people at different times in different manners. And it all happens without them realising that they've actually fallen for someone.

Love plays its game, where you either win or end up as the runner up. In either case, what loses is hatred, not just for others, but also for yourself, for who you couple up with helps you realise that you too are the chosen one. Love helps you love yourself better, which indeed is more divine than any of the other heavenly emotions that co-exist.

LOVE IS SMILE...
Smile, so heartfelt, that your reticent teeth expose themselves with an all new blatant radiance.
LOVE IS CRYING...
Crying, where your eyes become the voice of your pain, your tears holding you back when needed to be held back themselves.

LOVE IS TRUST...
Trust that builds up in your sinking heart when you start questioning its existence.
LOVE IS HEARTBREAK...
Heartbreak, so quietly powerful, where muscle breaks harder than a bone, leaving no cracks but an eternal void, that's deep but intangible.

LOVE IS PLEASURE...
Pleasure that turns uproars to music and music to lullabies with a tender touch of affection and gentle words of care.
LOVE IS PAIN...
Pain that cures all other pains your frame embodies, with its intensity.

LOVE IS PROMISE...
Promise meant to be broken only when either love ceases to exist, or the lovers do.
LOVE IS WAIT...
Wait, too indefatigable, that it surpasses the 86400 seconds of the day with the clock ticking like each passing heart beat.

LOVE IS UNDERSTANDING...
Understanding between two lonely, forever misunderstood souls, who require no language but make one of their own.
LOVE IS CONFLICT...
Conflict between a stray heart and a lost mind, resolved by mere presence of an angel, where the two conflicted victims lose their way in sync.

LOVE IS FORGIVING...
Forgiving, what you can't forget, with all your heart, even if that leaves it tumoured forever.
LOVE IS AVENGING...
Avenging not your broken trust, but the molestation of the purity of the relationship.

LOVE IS A DREAM...
A dream, too alluring to chase and fight for but at times, too far fetched to catch hold of.
LOVE IS A NIGHTMARE...
A nightmare that haunts your thoughts every night and plays hide and seek with your emotions, but never shows up in physical form.

LOVE IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT...
Accomplishment of a mission that revolves around a small mass of 350 grams with no final destination, but still so focussed.
LOVE IS A SACRIFICE...
Sacrifice for your love so that true love isn't sacrificed.

Love is so smart a player...
When you're looking for it, it camouflages itself with your shadow, never to be caught.
When you're barricading it, it kisses your soul in a blink, making your gooseflesh soldiers stand in attention, turning your racing heart to a rumbling djembe.

Love is so unpredictable...
When you think it is, it leaps out of your heart.
When you're confident it isn't, it plays its card.

Love indeed has no definition.
But whoever tries to define it can't help falling in love...
With love!