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"Defining Equation: Love = ?"
by Shioru Sutherlands (aka. Kotoshin)
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What is love?

If love is defined, what would be that definition?
What lines can be drawn to decide where love begins and ends?
What rules can be set to predict the course love takes?
What laws can be used to calculate the width, the breadth, the
	very depth of the emotion that is love?

What, is love?

If love is defined, is it defined by time?
Does the length of time I have known you affect my judgement, 
	distort what I see of the person before me?

If love is defined, is it defined by space?
Does the distance between us affect my longing for you, 
	increasing proportionally, as you come closer to me?

If love is defined, is it defined by the number of times I 
	think of you, speak of you by name?
If love is defined, is it defined by the number of times you 
	reach for me, call for me by name?

What, is love?

What is this feeling, this need?
What is this need - to have you hear only me?
What is this need - to have your eyes only on me?
What is this need - to have you speak only to me?
What is this need - to have you only with me?

And yet ...
It is not so simple, this need.
Possession of you is not what I need.
Love is not only this feeling, this need.

Love is free.
I cannot possess that which is free.
I cannot hold it captive, against its will.
I cannot trap it within my hands, cannot touch it with force.

What is love?
If I can define love, can I define what I feel for you?

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Shin no Freetalk:

... ouji-sama nearly killed shi while writing this ...
... because shi was trying for a poem from his point-of-view.
Guess shi's still too Fuugen oriented.
After one too many classes of Calculus ... this came about.
Given Fuugen's specialty in physics, this is particularly
appropriate. ^_^

mail shi at kichin@doushi.org with any comments!
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Last Revised: September 15th, 2000 at 1:37 PM 
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