Love’s Flavors

These are flavors of love:

Desire, curiosity, compassion

Whatever leads you,

Whatever lights up nodes of interest,

What you follow,

What tenderly unites each need

with that which meets it,

The tears wherewith you nourish

some secret yearning,

And the rushing, billowing joy

that lifts you up

and sends you flying down your path

So many flavors!  

Enough that love

can paint the whole canvas of life

All the textures, all the colors

All the shapes and sizes, all the speeds

Love has enough — 

no other substance is required

to make the day.

©Wendy Mulhern

July 10, 2012