Love Is Life

You would think at this ripe old age of eight-one

Love and romance would no longer be foremost in my thoughts

Well that is so very far from the truth, it's laughable

This is what I had envisioned when I was a much younger lad

Always thought love would be much less important to me

How wrong could one be... it is more important than ever

Love never leaves us... we can still smell the fields of flowers

Still revel in the sunshine of a warm summer day

Love is everywhere we look

It is on the faces of everyone we pass on the street

Some are harder than others to decipher but it's there

The trials of life can mask it but if you dig deep enough

Love is at the core of everything we do and say

All we need do is recognize it and it will be ours

Love is life itself