Darkness is not the absence of light; it's the absence of you.



What is love?

Are your palms sweaty, is your heart racing and is your voice caught within
your chest?
It isn't love, it's like.

You can't keep your eyes or hands off of them, am I right?
It isn't love, it's lust.

Are you proud, and eager to show them off?
It isn't love, it's pride.

Do you want them because you know they're there?
It isn't love, it's loneliness.

Are you there because it's what everyone wants?
It isn't love, it's loyalty.

Are you there because they kissed you, or held your hand?
It isn't love, it's low confidence.

Do you stay for their confessions of love, because you don't want to hurt
them?
It isn't love, it's pity.

Do you belong to them because their sight makes your heart skip a beat?
It isn't love, it's infatuation.

Do you pardon their faults because you care about them?
It isn't love, it's friendship.

Do you tell them every day that they are the only one you think of?
It isn't love, it's a lie.

Are you willing to give all of your favorite things for their sake?
It isn't love, it's charity.

Does your heart ache and break when they're sad?
Then it's l o v e.


Do you cry for their pain, even when they're strong?
Then it's l o v e.


Do their eyes see your true heart, and touch your soul so deeply it hurts?
Then it's l o v e.


Do you stay because a blinding, incomprehensible mix of pain and
relation pulls you close and holds you there?
Then it's l o v e.


Do you accept their faults because they're a part of who they are?
Then it's l o v e.

Would you give them your heart, your life, your death?

- by Nicole Tran.