I know love
I am lucky
I have always known love
The love that comes with no conditions
The love that is given and received freely
From your person, from family and friends
I’ve seen ugliness imitating love
Weaponised, mistreated, only when it suits
Misused and forgotten and rotten
That’s not the love I want to know
Not the love I have come to know
The love I know takes many forms
Love is safety
Love is none judgemental
Even if it doesn’t agree
Love is accepting
Love listens
Love is in the kindness received
And shared in kindness given
Love is being grateful
Love is appreciating the little things
Love is the sound laughter
Love finds comfort in silence
Love is having fun
Love is not stuff
Love is not perfection
Love works hard
Love does not always have to see eye to eye
It doesn’t punish when it doesn’t.
I am learning to live through the last act of love
Grief is the price we pay
Love does not simply end
Love is feeling broken but carrying on
Love is found in those that sit with you in the dark
And celebrate with you in the light
Love is doing everything in my power to make my kids happy
Love is seeing them smile
Love is filling their lives with a million small adventures
Love is taking care of myself
So I can take care of them
Love is in the search for who I am now
Love is learning to cope with change
Love is not wasting this life
Love is keeping your memory alive
Love is realising how lucky I am to wake each day
Love is making you proud
Love is missing you
Love is Always
