Love: A Definition (Revised 2009 and 2012)

it establishes the orbits,

betwixt atoms, friends

and trees in a forest.

planets align along its axis.

trajectories bend to its will,

life the result.

both attracted and repulsed.

with respected boundaries,

and admired inner spaces,

burning sweetly within view

it sets order to chaos,

with unknowable plans.

an intellectual paradise,

balanced symbiosis.

it sets time and rhythm,

on scales intractable.

and unmeasurable bars;

a symphony estoile

it is ethereal,

but wholly foreseeable.

when inducted thus instructed,

unconsciously constructed;

love is its name

- the thelosopher