Ocean of Thoughts

Are you in love?
Or in love with the idea
Of love

Can you decipher the meaning
Behind that heart beating?

Do you desire to be with
That person wholly?
Or with the idea of them
Conceived in your head only

You’ve read love letters
And history of lovers of old
Do you wish to have
The love that they had?

Are you willing to make sacrifices
Same that they made
For the ones they love?

Or do you only wish to be,
To have the love that they had?
Without knowing their hardships
Needed to build the love
That love so strong

Young one,
Love goes behind the idea
Of love

True love requires living
The human experience
Of pain and virtue
A love that’s ready to let go
Not the one possesive
Of one’s own

Love goes beyond
Intellectual analysis
For love can be hard
Even on scholars
But so easy for some
Even living
The most mundane