What Is Love

by  Walter Rinder

Love is just not looking at each other and saying
"You're wonderful."

There are times when we are anything but wonderful.

Love is looking out in the same direction,
it is linking our strength to pull
a common load,

it is pushing together towards the far horizons,
hand in hand.
Love is knowing that when our strength falters,

we can borrow the strength of someone who cares.

Love is a strange awareness
that our sorrows will be shared
and made lighter by sharing;

that joys will be enriched and multiplied
by the joy of another.
Love is knowing someone else cares that we are not
alone in life.

Walter Rinder