of what you can achieve.

Sometimes language fails me.

I decided yesterday that "love" is far to a complex emotion for just one word to satisfy. There are so many different types of love. Don't worry this is not the point where I quote a dictionary because that would be a cliche and not to mention boring.

You love your mother, father brother and sister; its a family bond. This love encompasses the feeling of security, familiarity, unification. They are a love that makes you feel safe. You have a deep bond with them because of your blood relation, you grew up with them and so your souls grew a kinship.

But (hopefully) this love is not in any way similar to the love you feel for a "Lover" (I also think the word "partner" is a terrible thing to use to refer to someone that you have such an affinity with.). This term of love can be so intense that you can feel helpless without that person with you, its a mad kind of love. It makes you excited and giddy when you think of that person. You can't bare to see them hurt. Its a recognition of something that actually I think is very hard to put into words. Its such an extreme love as well. It can make you grit your teeth in excitement when you hug or kiss your lover. It can be possessive, dominating and ugly as well as beautiful. It is, in my opinion, a far to complicated emotion for a one syllable word to encompass.

An example of the word completely failing at is task would be between to male friends. They do love each other, yet the word also expresses too much as it is used for a lover. So when said between two men it is usually the accompanied by some outburst of friendly violence or comments running along the line of confirming how straight they are.

So poets and writers have tried to explain what the word love means to them. Most of them accomplish a good description, but can it ever really be the definitive answer? An individual's love is different from anyone else, they feel it in any number of ways. Why make it hard for ourselves and have only one measly word for a huge emotion?

I think that there should be more words for the different types of love that we experience every single day.

Instead of a story today here is a poem for a poems sake...

I am a scarf,

Not a giraffe.

Though the length of my neck may confuse you,

it was not my intention.