“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu
he looked at me
and smiled.
a deep satisfying smile
a beckoning, warm
and inviting smile
then he said:
flower
is the language of LOVE.
yes,
i replied and mused.
after leaving him
his sentence
echoes in my ears
‘flower is the language of love’.
yes it is!
the symbol
understood by the involved.
can bystanders.
ever understand?
understand
LOVE intricacies?
is a flower understood
by the disinterested?
love is fragile
like the flower
an intricate, complex
and beautiful object
only appreciated
through experience.
just as the flower,
so also is love.
do you ever see love
sitting with the rash, brash
and the rough?
love is like flower
delicate, sweat smelling
and radiant
when well tendered
and groomed.
love’s cultivation
is tough, rough
and dirty
tiring, nauseating
and frustrating.
you clear the ground,
turn the soil,
add manure and plant
you consistently water,
and then tend
the young sapling.
love not well tended
and pruned
grows chaotic.
well tended
it demands tenacity.
never give up
your WILL
or it wilts to the roots.
the flower like love
minus nourishment and care
quickly wilts.
love is a flower
flower is love.
in nature
an uncultured flower
grows wild
like uncultured love
becomes wild and unwieldy.
an unhampered,
unhindered flower
grows and blossoms
bringing smiles and happiness
to man, homes,
offices and places.
inhibited unrestrained,
unhampered love
bring smiles to MANY
and joy to its possessor.
so…tell me
is love not a flower ?
is flower not love
in nature?
so
lets cultivate our love.
let’s cultivate love
in a way that
it keeps on beautifying
US.
in a manner
that even when we leave
even when we are no more
its fragrance still endures
animating and elevating US.
just like the flower animates
let love’s fragrance endure
and elevate our souls
let love elevates US
enhancing our being and souls.
just like the FLOWER!
ayékòótóFMD 
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