What is LOVE?

Dear Diary,

What is love?
When we claim that it is love that we have for someone, are we right?

Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing, is your voice caught within your chest?
it isn't love, it is LIKE....

You can't keep your eyes or hands off of them?
It isn't love, it is LUST...

You feel proud and eager to show them off?
It isn't love, it is LUCK...

Do you want them because you know they are there?
It isn't love, it is LONELINESS...

Are you there because it is what everyone wants?
It isn't love, it is LOYALTY...

Are you there because they kissed you, or held your hand?
It isn't love, it is LOW CONFIDENCE...

Do you stay for their confessions of love, because you don't want to hurt them?
It isn't love, it is PITY....

Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat?
It isn't love, it is INFATUATION...

Do you pardon their faults because you care about them?
It isn't love, it is FRIENDSHIP....

Do you tell them everyday they are the only one you think of?
It isn't love, it is a LIE...

 Are you willing to give all of your favourite things for their sake?
It isn't love, it is CHARITY...

BUT!

Does your heart ache and break when they are sad?
Then it is LOVE....

Do you cry for their pain, even when they are strong?
Then it is LOVE.....


Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts?
Then it is LOVE.....

Do you stay because a blinding, incomprehensible mix of pain and relation pulls you close and holds you there?
Then it is LOVE....

Do you accept their faults because they are part of who they are?
Then it is LOVE.....

Are you attracted to others, but stay with them faithfully without regret?
Then it is LOVE.....

Would you allow them to leave you, not because they want to but because they have to?
Then it is LOVE.....

Would you give them your heart, your life, your death?
Then it is LOVE.....

Signed off for now,
LOLA