96 words for love
Could you imagine?
Being able to understand
with immediacy
if someone is describing
their affection for sweets
or a sweetheart?
To understand if it is general
or familial
or devotional
or sexual?

How much more meaning
if I knew the exact word
to describe this thing

this mad, eternal longing
devotion beyond devotion’s due
so difficult to express
it is like how the ocean
pulls to the moon
or the flower
faces the sun

It is as neverending
and vast
as the outward flung stars
spreading across the universe
hurtling into the emptiness
of beyond.

My only hope is entropy.