To solve that riddle with just one answer is beyond me, for love is many different and contradictory things.

In the early stages love is excitement and breathlessness, it is the ache of separation and the comfort of togetherness, and it builds inexorably to that moment when ‘I’ becomes ‘we’.

Later, if blessed, love becomes a stronger, less transitory thing, a foundation for two lives lived as one.

It is all around us, there for the taking, yet to seek it out is futile.

It cannot be bought or stolen or given.  It cannot be avoided or denied.

Love is the beautiful, wonderful, mysterious mortar that binds two souls together and I first heard its voice on the day I met you.

It has been with me every moment since.

This is what love is.”

Love Birds card courtesy of Ruby Wren

Written by Coulson Macleod.