An Ode to Love

I was sent a poem today, a wonderful beginning to a brand new day. I think it's beautiful and clever, especially because it holds different interpretations dependent on the reader. Either time or genius went into this, and whichever it was, both are highly valued. That aside, this poem was meant for me, and it warms my heart, I hope it brightens your day too.

An ode to love

To Love is a many sided thing
It can make one smile
It can make one sting
It can make can make you feel immeasurable relief
It can bring crushing waves
Of grief
It can make you laugh and cry and sing
Because Love is a many sided thing

To see love can both confuse and elate
You may imagine your own
Or curse your fate
You may use your heart to pull its half nearer
You may open your eyes, and see yourself even clearer
You may look to change to better suit your other
You may gaze inwards and wonder
Why bother?
It can build and break and sear and sate
Because to see Love
Can both confuse, and elate

But to be loved is the greatest feeling of all
It can stock you up
It can slow your fall
It can fill you with words that cant be expressed
It can provide you with actions to match those words best
It will serve you better than any mere object
Because its life force will fuel you, and forever protect
Its fiber will bind you, tighter than steel
You will work in symmetry, like the ring of a wheel
Your thoughts will be those of freedom and bliss
Even in short moments alone
You will sorely be missed
It can heal and affix and assure and call
Because to be loved, is the greatest feeling of all

And then

There is us

Our love is a story without match
You are my porcelain angel
My wondrous catch
Your clear voice breaks my ice like the chime of a bell
A mere second without you, is a moment in hell
Our bond is so strong we could hold back the world
Let them try
Let them push
While our fingers remain furled
You are my princess whose hair shines as bright as the sun
Whose thoughts and movements leave me stunned
Your eyes are so deep i could dive from above
And still be able
To float down on our Love
My world, my heart, my soul, my jewel
To attempt to describe you with mere words...
I'm not a poet
I'm a fool.