When I say love, I don’t mean it in the sexual sense,

It isn’t a proposition,

It’s just a gift I have to give

If I am to be a real person with a soul.

 

Don’t let the word love put you off,

Or make it an invitation to a room you don’t want to enter.

It is just what it is.

Love. Shared and equal amongst all.

 

So don’t be offended the next time someone says I love you.

Just take the word and grab it before it drifts away,

Into some other place,

Full of unaccepted gifts.

 

Rather take it fully as intended.