What Can Be Said About Love?

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What can be said about love?
Nothing, really.
We are either being love
or we're talking about it.
Talk is cheap; love can't be bought. 

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It is not about flowery words,
or the agony or ecstasy of emotion.
It is not even about relationship, 
or merging union with the Divine.
Where are there two? 

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And yet . . . and yet . . . 
This wordless pull of connection--
even when the mind
wants no connection.
What is that unsought warmth? 

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That melting of resistance,
the fire that makes
even iron turn to liquid,
or a caterpillar dissolve
before wings emerge? 

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Love's only true language is Being.
Demand love, and it will flee.
Bargain with love, and you will lose.
Eventually, you will rejoice in defeat;
Love refuses all separation. 

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Love moves, responds, touches,
returns the unwanted pieces of your life
back to wholeness. Its language is truth, 
and truth speaks love, but these are words, 
and not alive, until your heart opens. 

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Every moment love is gently knocking
from inside, longing to flow out;
but we are busy looking elsewhere,
searching in the market place of "me's"
to fill the emptiness that is, itself, vast love. 

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What can be said about love?
Nothing, really. These words fail.
We are either being love
or we're talking about it.
Choose the former, if you have a choice,
for love alone transforms.