Love is an animal instinct
and love is divine.
Love softens the edge
of every negative emotion
and overlooks the faults,
as the dawn softens
the edge of darkness.
Love is also a scalpel's edge
it heals as it cuts.
Love is caging a bird
and love is setting it free
and listning to its every note
as it sings in the woods
and see it soar high
in the wide open sky
Love is selfish as a baby
and love is selfless as a mother.
Love is flambyont as a gulmohar
and love is shy as a 'touch me not'.
Love is supportive as a a tree
and love is dependent as a climber.
Love is a temptation
to pluck the rose
and love is tolerence
when the rose is loved
even if the thorn pricks bleed.
Love is an elixir
and can make paradise
of the earth
and still has the energy
to blow it all up.
17/6/09
maitreyee joshi
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-this-and-that/
