Love: a meditation

By DONNA LUKIW

Love is a feeling of warmth filled with laughter and memories, smiles and tears. Love means preserving good thoughts and releasing the anger and resentment that haunts regretful souls.

Love is unconditional and sometimes painful when one experiences a loss of love or a loss of a loved one.

Love is heartening and enriching and inspiring.

Love can be joyous, blissful and kind when his hand is immersed in yours with that well-known feeling of never wanting to let go.

Love can be unexpected and frightening, filled with anxiety and fear making you tremble as you notice your own beads of sweat forming atop the forehead when he finally proclaims his eternal love for you, leaving you with nothing but hidden words.

Love can be mysterious and puzzling when his eyes meet yours for the first time and fate is the only truth.

Does love at first sight even exist or is it just a figment of our imagination, helping us to have faith in something besides our presidency and the war that has consumed us all?

Is it really an illusion, a delusion of our minds and hearts to see love before it even exposes itself like the sun that glances through the window before its full revelation to the world; the world that solely awaits the light and the warmth that love can only create?

Is love even real or is it just something we create to disengage ourselves from reality and the truth that scares us all?

Do we just create the laughter and memories to remember the tears that forgave and the smiles that forgot; to remember the found innocence and the lost guilt; to remember the first date and the last fight; to remember the dark past and the bright future; to remember each tear with each unforgettable smile; to remember the recovery of a break up and the relapse of a reunited love; to remember that the sun sets and the sun rises as does the beginning of a new love?