What Love Is

What Love Is

Love is not Romeo and Juliet
Dying together in their youth
But love that lasts until youth is gone
And still singing together love's sweet song.

Love is helping remember things
That each spouse needs to know
Loving to be near each other
And daily telling them so.

Loving is helping with a walker
When frail limbs need help to move
Just as tenderly and lovingly
As when you danced to your grove.

Love is putting eyedrops in eyes
When the hands tremble or shake
Gently helping lift a spouse
As if they might break.

Love is listening to each other
When the story has been told before
While looking at them with eyes which though dim
Show that they are the ones you adore.

Love is patient and kind
And does not go away when times are rough
But draws true lovers closer together
As though they can not be close enough.

Love is there when life is at its end
On this fragile earthly plane
Love is looking toward eternity
When you will see your love again.

Thena

Love means being patient
When someone is telling a story
About their days of glory
That you've heard again and again
And listening with a grin.
Love means saying thank you
For a gift that has been regifted
And you know for sure it's true
Because they received it from you...
Love means loving when times are tough
And you barely have enough
To get you through
As well as when things are going well for you.
Love means loving those round about you
That may sometimes doubt you
And seeing something good in those
Who seem to have gone astray
And being able to welcome them back
Into the fold not holding grudges or ill will
Letting them know that you love them still.
Thena Cullen Smith

Amen! Love is precious and once we find it, it should never be taken for granted.