Love Is

Love would not seek a gentle kiss from one whose heart and mind are stones For truly love is not inclined to dominate a will that groans Nor bend another's choice through fear of force or subtlety For love does not avenge itself as does a tyrant's cruelty Love's desire, for those beloved, is all their liberty As love cannot conceive that souls are merely property Love hopes to give and share it's all, and join two lives into one life Whose lives are bound by covenant, in love, as husband is as wife