Love is Like Water

In the midst of a debate

On why does love equal pain

I finally decided to say

Love is not that way

Rather, love is like the cycle of water

It starts as the rain

Sometimes it comes without warning

Or sometimes there are signs along the way

But suddenly, it's pouring

And you're dancing, singing, and feeling

But just like the weather would have it

The rain stops and goes away

And you drop your heartbroken head

Only to find at your feet is now a lake

And you laugh and you dance

You jump and you swim

In this lake that was once the rain

But as the sun beats down

Your lake dries up

And in a panic, you look around

To see your rain and your lake

Are nowhere to be found

But if only you knew your water was now around you

Because it turns into the vapor that surrounds you

And if you give it some time

Then look to the sky

You'll see that your precious water that was once falling about and flooding the ground

Is now a big fluffy cloud

And you'll lay in its shade

Seeing it form into so many shapes

Until suddenly, this white fluffy thing

Turns a dark gray

And you are back to having rain

So, don't you see

Love never leaves

It just takes on new forms

With new purposes and new shapes

But always at its core

It's still the same thing

Because water is water

Whether as vapor or rain

Or a cloud or the lake

And so love is love

Whether from him, or a new one

Or from family thats blood

Or strangers that you choose

To be like family to you

Love, like water

Is always there

But you have to be open to all the ways

Shapes and forms love may take

I mean of course you would see love as pain

If you only thought that water came in the form of rain

And when you can't find the rain, the lake, the vapor or the cloud

Remember you are never without

Because I forgot to mention one other way

Water takes shape

In the form of you

If we are roughly fifty percent water

That means love can be above, next to, and all around us

But also

Love is in us

And from us

There is never a drought

When you start with loving yourself