Love is....

With love you cannot bargain
there, the choice is not yours.
Love is a mirror, 
it reflects only your essence, 
if you have the courage 
to look in its face.
To the parched lips of those
who are willing to surrender
Love will bring the wine
that changes darkness into vision,
cruelty into compassion and
dust into precious incense.
Love means to reach for the sky
and with every breath
to tear a hundred veils.
Love means
to step away from the ego,
to open the eyes of inner vision
and not to take this world so seriously.

~ Rumi