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WHAT IS LOVE? by Jesse Asonze

<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>1 Minute&comma; 59 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p>Love is a long hard journey<br>&NewLine;A voyage into another’s soul<br>&NewLine;A means to check pungent characters<br>&NewLine;A blossoming of the heart<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the ache I feel<br>&NewLine;The emptiness in my soul<br>&NewLine;That desire to impress<br>&NewLine;The laughter stored with one’s cheeks<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is God himself<br>&NewLine;That tendency toward the good<br>&NewLine;That thought that stays our hand<br>&NewLine;That corrects the errors of our flesh<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love causes you to fall hard and stand harder<br>&NewLine;Love still somehow holds you up<br>&NewLine;Standing with you through trials and storms<br>&NewLine;A foray into the future&comma; a risk boldly undertaken<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the sweetness of our voices<br>&NewLine;The honey in our words<br>&NewLine;The thoughtful actions that speak to<br>&NewLine;The very essence of our existence<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the savior&comma; Christ himself<br>&NewLine;Who gave willingly his body&comma; life and blood<br>&NewLine;That we may be ransomed<br>&NewLine;From the deadly grip of the devil’s vices<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is an eagerness<br>&NewLine;To observe time passing<br>&NewLine;A tenderness sprinkled with kindness<br>&NewLine;Sipped satisfactorily with moments spent fruitfully<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the answer<br>&NewLine;To your unanswered questions<br>&NewLine;Love is that emotion<br>&NewLine;That challenges your confidence<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love tolerates and supports<br>&NewLine;Love advises and points out the truth<br>&NewLine;Love breaks down walls and boundaries<br>&NewLine;Love unites all and sundry<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the fabric of the universe<br>&NewLine;The bond between souls<br>&NewLine;Love is a miracle from heaven<br>&NewLine;A willingness to sacrifice<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love has a conscience and a will<br>&NewLine;Love brings out the good in us<br>&NewLine;It is a belief entrenched in faith&comma; hope and charity<br>&NewLine;It is a supernatural gift given freely to man by his creator<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is a poet<br>&NewLine;A composer of lines&comma; rhymes and rhythm<br>&NewLine;Love is an inspiration<br>&NewLine;The ink that flows from the bard’s pen<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is the foundation of the highest institution<br>&NewLine;The glue that holds family together<br>&NewLine;The values of society and Nations<br>&NewLine;The rug that hold the floor so tight &lpar;so says Shiba&comma; a good friend of JesseAnz&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is a primus interperes among emotions and feelings<br>&NewLine;Love is the medicine that calms<br>&NewLine;Even the most tumultuous beast<br>&NewLine;A solitude found in a wilderness where one finds himself<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is a compass<br>&NewLine;Useful and sacred<br>&NewLine;That guides the working of our minds<br>&NewLine;A character beautiful and lovely<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love is a loud silence<br>&NewLine;That booms in our ears and beats in our hearts<br>&NewLine;That knock at the door to our lives<br>&NewLine;And turns it around&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; 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