What is Love?

[Sharon Moore Stenhouse]

The Poetic Writings of a'Kihoro
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Making Love
by Sharon Moore Stenhouse (aka) a'Kihoro
from the book Amani na Mapenzi: Love & Peace © 2007

Love is love.
Or is it God
Is it with God
Can it exist without God?

Self love is love.
Or is it God
Is it with God
Can it exist without God?

Being in love is love.
Or is it God
Is it with God
Can it exist without God?

Making love is love.
Or is it God
Is it with God
Can it exist without God?

When I think about love in its truest form
I think of God

He loves us so much he gives us the gifts of Agape love, being in love and making love.

To be in love is human…to make love is human…to be human is to be in the image of God

To make love I must be in love; to be in love I must love myself

Every fiber of my being every hour of my day, is needed to make love

Making love is when I care about your well being more than I do my own; It is when your
happiness makes me happy, your sadness makes me sad, your desires give me desire and
your presence brings me joy.

It is being with you anywhere, anyplace, anytime to take in the majesty of God in you,
the hours spent together in solitude, the harmony of feeling like we are important to one
another in that moment.

Making love is bonding while delving into the intellect of each other, learning each other’s
likes and dislikes; and to understand through respect without wanting to make you change.

Love is consideration your needs, your wants, your haves, your not haves, the personal
necessities of your daily life, and missing you when you’re not around.

Making love is being able to say I’m sorry, making amends, knowing what is important and
what is not, forgiving and learning to forget.

It is sweet discretion in public when no one knows but us, yet everyone around us feels
our love.

Making love is looking into your eyes to see your soul; looking into your eyes from across a
room; looking into your eyes to see the tears; looking into your eyes to feel the fears, with
compassion as I see the compassion in you.

Love is the touch that calms; the touch that warms; the touch that caresses; the touch
that holds, and that feathered touch heating the blood while raising the hairs at the base
of your neck, creating a tingle in the tips of your fingers and toes, causing you to shiver as
you become, engorged with an erection of anticipation.

And, when the time is right we’ll look into each eyes in the throws of passion as we
become one, making love in the beauty of the exploration of each other’s bodies…blending,
exploring every inch of each other, with gentle intensity and erotic care…nurturing the love
built over time together into an explosion of ecstasy that completes us. ###

[The Passion]

well now, it is the reason I share, love is a beautiful thing, in reading these words I am taken to a place in my heart that allows me to share what I do with others as we are all strangers on the shores of love. When love is true, emotions can get the best of you, I enjoyed reading this for many reason as it speaks deeply of love and passion in so many ways

The Passion

[Shaman DeMagi]

I am reluctant to speak because what I am inclined to say, in response to A'kihoro's writings on love, would be like swimming against strong and contrary streams of waters. Seriously, though, as a general rule, people are far from "Innerstanding" the higher and more actual prowess of Love. The evidence of this Truth can easily be measured by the basic misrelations We see now-a-days in all human affairs - particularly the affairs of the heart. This thing...love... is grievously misenterpreted and grossly flung round in a way that betokens the degree of ignorance and perversity of the human soul. This thing...love...is one of the most poten and proteanic Spirits that no mortal can control with the mortal will. This is why there comes a time wherein one will feel ( and feelings are deceptive ) that they are whole-heartedly in love with some one, and, yet, they have absolutely no control over whether or not that person loves them back. This evince that fact that you have no power over this power - love. Should any fool-hardy mortal ever try to bend this power ( love ) into the shape that they think, feel, and want it to be, then, that fool-hrady mortal shall be bent, and, oftentimes, broken by the chastening spirits of frustration and pain. But, nevertheless, there are multitudes atop multitudes of peole who dare to dabble into powers they do not altogether "Innerstand." Indeed, I know of some who are hooked and peirced, slain and burried, by what they will declare to be love - but, it ain't.

Loving some one who does not ( and, probably cannot! ) love you as you think, feel, and would want them to love you back is not love: the tickle and pleasure of ardent kiss, grind, and hug is not love - this would be more akin to the spiritual ritual called sex; those memorable moments of Tell-Lie-Vision watch, of sitting at the shores of a beach in a star-stitched and moon-lit night, of simply laying together, in bed, and talkin, is not love; the lavish exchange of gifts and sweet words of tender affection is not love. If any thing, each and every one of the above-mentioned scenarioes are attributes of love - or, We might say that they are accompaniments to love. But, then, We still would have to investigate these situations so as to rightly distinguish the substance from the shadows it might cast.

In essence, what I am saying here is that love is not to be bridled or based on what one might think, feel, and want. This because it a God-sent teacher of higher Spiritual Truths. You can even virtually see love - if you can see it? Love is not an affair of the hearts...unless the heart is the center of the Center of all Creaton. But, now, I do not want to weary your patience with what I know to be True, so, then, I will conclude by saying this..."I was tickled by the writtings of A'kihoro. There were many subtle contradictions concealed in back of the sensationalism characteristic of words ( written or spoken ) when they are well put togeter. I mean no affront but I do mean raise consciousness - it is all spiritual.