What is Love?

When you are 14.

Love is a girl you don't talk to,

Just a girl you stare at and on a lucky day, she stares back.

When you are 16.

Love is the girl you see in church.

Always with her mother.

She doesn't wear dresses.

She's always in jeans.

Everytime you walk past her and her mother, you bounce a bit.

Everytime her mother is busy talking to other people, you always almost go over to say hi

....but you never do.

When you are 18.

Love is jealousy.

The girl in church is friends with your friend.

Your friend is the boy who walked over and said hi when her mother was busy talking to other people.

When you are 22,

Love is petty.

Like, postponing a date because of a pimple on your face.

When you are 24,

Love is a poem.

Like, I think about you 8 days in a week.

Like, my heart is on the left, but you make my insides feel right.

Like, what is 14th on a February, when I could leave you breathless on 13th, and 18th, and 1st of July.

Like, I find you littering on my mind every time I collect my thoughts

Like, I don't see you often, I see us together.

Like, the way I’m falling for you, it’s a scary fall.

I need knee pads and a helmet for the way I’m crushing on you.

Like, the way my pocket is set up right now,

I can't buy you airtime but I'm so into you, I can stage a demo at freedom corner and demand for your free airtime!

When you are 25.

Love is a delicate thing.

You don't want people to know you are a glass just in case they like breaking things.

When you are 26,

Cupid keeps pointing you to people who are already taken.

People you call by name while another person calls them mine.

When you are 27,

Love is to say I miss you without saying I miss you.

Like, I read something that reminded me about you today.

When you are 28,

Love is something with no name.

That way, you don't have to call it.

It will come when it wants to.

When you stop counting,

Love is who you are,

Love is something you did,

Love is where you want to be,

Love is free,

Love is what you feel,

I feel like I can change the world.

And it's all love.