Love Is More

Love is not love only

When it is seen

Or heard

Or touched.

Love is not love only

When it is remembered,

When it is received

And appreciated

In warmth.

For love is more love

When it is given

In secret,

When it is rendered

Where it is thought

It could never be found.

Love is more love

When it quietly serves

And persistently gives

And gives and gives,

Even when ignored

Even where it seems

To bear no fruit

And all is

Painful

And wearisome

And dark.

Such is love indeed,

Such is true love.

Love survives the darkest night

And though it passes

Through the valley of the shadow of death,

Love endures and conquers and lives.

This poem is included in the book "Poems of Love and Letting Go". Get it from Amazon today - click here.