look at kannamma's love

What is love,

how can an emotion be understood?

how can it be put into words?

how can it have so many flavours, nuances, curvy turns?

how can it have a goal, an expectation attached?

It just is, is, and is...

A deep ocean, no bottom, no border,

that floods everything

within me, but calls out

to go beyond my limits

and merge with you

so that everything becomes one

and understanding no longer exists,

because there's nothing to understand...

just to experience, to be.

What is love,

how can it be contained,

when it feeds on itself

and grows ever larger,

and if it hears a mere

echo bouncing back,

reverberates louder rather than fainter

with each echo.

It overspills any container

to flood the surroundings

and like all floods

washes away the accumulated unnecessary

leaving behind fertile ground

for an explosion of new life

and blossoming flowers.

What is love,

but a bringing together of two souls,

so that the loneliness recedes,

but as long as there's love,

loneliness too will be, for the two remain two,

only when love climaxes in

complete merging

loneliness is beat.

What is love,

but a fire that consumes,

from within,

once everything is burned,

just devotion will remain,

pure and simple,

everything.