What Love Is
love be tender
love be rich
love me till my final breath
love be faithful
love be kind
love be the trusting lifeline
love be gentle
love be whole
love be something deep in the soul
love be trusted
love be deep
love be anything but cheap
love be joyful
love be sad
love to others may seem mad
but love be simple
love be complex
love be something more than sex
love be lasting
love be tried
love be a feeling that we can't hide
we change our hair,
we change our clothes
we change our skin,
we change our bones
but we change and change till we no longer know:
who we are, or who we were long ago
we change and change till all we know
is who our love choose to bestow