“I’ve finally found the love of a lifetime,
A love to last my whole life through.
I finally found the love of a lifetime,
forever in my heart
I finally found a love of a lifetime…”
Firehouse

 

I have experienced love in the many guises it comes in.
The love of a father for his children,
a love of friends and family,
a love for music, and writing.
a love of community.
a love for nature,
and a love for the water…..

but in 49 years I have only been in love, true love, one time.

I know how people talk about the love they have for their spouses. The strong feelings they have for their boy/girl friends.
I know what society tells us on how love suppose to be,
What it says are the kind of things we should be concerned with.
I know the religious views on love. What they do and don’t accept.
I have heard nearly all the whys, hows, and whats behind this thing called love.

I know all this because I have been in those positions myself. I’ve had girlfriends, lovers. I have been married and I know the feelings that come along with these relationships.

While all those feelings, that surfaced at the time, were real to some extent, they weren’t near to what I now know love to be.

I’m talking about the love that dreamers dream of, the love that poets write about. The love that every person wishes to have in their lives but rarely ever finds.

A love that leaves you vulnerable with just a look, the love that sets the heart on fire with just a thought. the love that makes you weak in the knees yet gives you the power to fly. regardless of how much time has passed by.

The love that allows you to give freely of yourself, without hesitation, the love that makes every sacrifice, you might make, worth it all.
The love that keeps you safe from all that might harm you. While helping to guide you to where you are supposed to be.

So strongly have I felt this love, that never a moment passes that its not on my mind. This is the love that has captured my heart and my soul, and I know deep within them both, that if I am to never love another again, I have found, at least one time, the love of a lifetime.