On Love

On days like today, people often take time to commemorate love. Some do it with gifts, some with promises, some with gestures. Love comes in many forms, so many that the Greeks have five words to describe it. No matter you celebrate, or who you celebrate with, I hope today is filled with love for you and all that you hold dear.

  Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

     But if you love and must needs have

desires, let these be your desires:

     To melt and be like a running brook

that sings its melody to the night.

     To know the pain of too much tenderness.

     To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

     And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

     To wake at dawn with a winged heart

and give thanks for another day of loving;

     To rest at the noon hour and meditate

love’s ecstasy;

     To return home at eventide with gratitude;

     And then to sleep with a prayer for the

beloved in your heart and a song of praise

upon your lips.

- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet