What Is Love?
Love is patient & kind.
It endures all situations, circumstances, and mistakes
because it is infinite, everlasting.
Love is loyal & devoted without sacrifice.
In foregoing other options or expressions, love
is simply the choice most desired.
Love is ease & flow.
While circumstances & behavior can bring up anger
or even resentment — Love is the heart
of the connection; the common denominator that brings
us back to center.
Love is expansive & expressive.
It never withholds, constricts, or diminishes.
It is the essence of growth, evolution, and creativity.
Creating a wellspring of fulfillment.
Love holds standards & maintains freedom.
It seeks to create, build, & fortify peace.
It is safety, security, and the choice to prioritize
healing over want.
Love is gracious, never greedy.
It is the ability to see your needs & that of another
And find solutions that work for all,
because love uncovers answers hidden by fear & doubt.
Love is courageous & cunning.
It outwits evil because it's not blinded by greed.
It's clear, intentional, and magnetic.
Love is choice.
Where control seeks to reign, love cannot live.
For by nature, love liberates & while letting go can be hard,
Love releases the grip of "what if" to allow the magic
of "what is."
Above all, love is.
It's unbound by time, space, deed, or creed.
It's the bond to our divine essence, our inner spark
of creation
That permeates through everything.
It is the gift we give others & ourselves,
because life itself is designed from love.
Raven Willow Riley, a proud card-carrying member of the introverted recluse club, is a writer, poet, and (novice) artist. Co-founder of Helia Lit, she writes from the inside out — pulling freedom, autonomy, and expression from the shadows and handing them back to the people who need them most. Soft in a world that mistakes gentleness for weakness, Raven believes healing is its own kind of rebellion.
