What Is Love? Poem by Nerissa Morton

What is love?
Is love wanting to manipulate someone?
Not to me
Love is wanting to make someone eternally happy

What is love?
Is it always using the word 'I love you'?
Or is it never using them at all?
Personally, neither

Love to me; What is it?
It is the need to make someone happy
It is when they unintentionally can make you smile
It is when compliments are meant
It is when the truth can be spoken
When you can gain 10 kgs and they still love you
It is when you can have a bad day and they are still by your side
It is when you can change for each other
It is when you can stand there hugging and whisper the words, 'I love you.'
It is when you can do anything you want infront of them and no longer be ashamed

LOVE;
A strong feeling and bond shared between two people
Sometimes it is one way,
But true love, that is both ways

'I love you';
Words should never be misused

That is what love is to me
The need and want to be happy with someone who holds your heart, world and everything.

Written in the beginning of 2009