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For centuries, creative men have labored to accurately and adequately express their love for women.  Poets, authors, painters, sculptors, musicians – all of these and more have spent lifetimes trying to show the world how powerfully they love.

I cannot say if these men truly understood the nature of love or not.  I do know that none of them have understood love in the same fashion as I do, or, if they did, they did not understand the nature of our society or the world that mankind has made.

True love is quite possibly the most powerful force on Earth.  It is a beautiful, pure force, and like all great powers, it is exceedingly rare, with many imitators and imposters that obscure the genuine emotion.

True love isn’t flashy.  It’s that extra boost of joy that makes a good day into a spectacular day.  It’s that quiet strength and hope that makes bad times bearable.  It’s a subtle assurance that settles into our hearts like super glue, making us stronger because we know – we feel – that we are not alone in this world.  No matter what life throws at us, we know that at least one person knows us, understands us, accepts us, and loves us.  True love is the force that’s created when two lost soul mates find one another and rejoin.   Despite the notions propagated by movies and TV, such a union doesn’t happen very often, and when it does, the resulting light is too beautiful, too intense, and too wonderful for the rest of mankind to endure.

Some will covet it for themselves and will go to any length to make it their own, not understanding that they can’t have someone else’s light it without destroying it.  Some will seek to snuff it out directly, simply because they cannot bear the contrast that true love strikes against their own dim and unfulfilled lives.  Some will seek to study and dissect it.  Others will strive to buy or sell it.  Many will be drawn to this love light, just because it gives them hope, but they won’t see that they’re trampling and suffocating it until it goes out forever.

Given the opportunity, the world of mankind will destroy true love where ever and when ever it is found.  It is for this reason that I consider all these poets and other love-struck men to be complete idiots.  If they understood the truth of love and the truth of the world, they would never sing the praises of love.  They would never tell the world of their discovery.  They would never share their joy.  It would be a secret known only to them and their soulmate, a wondrous treasure hidden away from the world, a concealed source of strength and light that they’d die to protect.

And what if I’m wrong about the world?  What if it isn’t as bleak as I claim? Even so, true love should still be revered and kept secret.  Love is a miracle, but if a person speaks of it everyday, then it eventually becomes just that – an everyday, mundane, routine.

I.  Love.  You.

Can you imagine three words that contain more power?  If we do have a shard of immortality in us, these three words are surely the only way to wake it and invoke it while we still live in the flesh.  And yet, how many people say them without meaning them, without feeling them, without even being conscious that they’re saying them?  How many times have you heard some one end a phone conversation by saying “love you” with the same tone of voice they’d use to order a pound of ham at the deli?

If you want love to last, if you want it to remain powerful and special, you must treat it as something that is unique, fragile, and essential to your continued existence.  Say the words without saying them, through everything that you do or don’t do.  Never make these three words part of a casual conversation.  Never use them as an excuse, bribe, or apology.

When you say them, speak them just as I have written them above: in a sentence and paragraph all of their own.  Don’t hide them in a flock of other words.  Whisper them to your soulmate so that only she can hear.  Don’t let the world know!

Last of all, only say them when you truly and completely feel it, and never expect your soul mate to say them back to you in response.  If she feels it and wants to share it at that moment, then relish her response.  Otherwise, trust in the power of your connection.  Be assured that she will speak those words to you when she’s ready, and when she does say them, you’ll know she feels them and means them with every atom of her being.

To those blessed few soulmates who have found each other, I urge you to keep your secret safe.  For those of you still searching, I urge you to keep looking, keep living, keep trying.  You may not succeed, but trying and failing will give you a better life than not trying at all.  For those of you who have lost their love or given up the search, I urge you to find that spark inside yourself.  If you’re alive, it must be buried in there somewhere.  Find the strength to try again.  Don’t accept that fate.  Don’t die without feeling love’s light in your heart.

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