You Don't Know Love

You don't know love at all It doesn't happen once, though literature would disagee It doesn't go smoothly with a guaranteed happy ending And it isn't a lyrical song to an accoustic guitar You can't know love If you think that it conquers every obstacle it faces If you think it is pure, and good, and right And if you think that it will be your saving grace For love can't be contained, it can't be described It's consuming, and exhausting, and it weaves in your soul And sometimes it lasts, and those people are lucky But most who love shall lose it one day That's the way of the world, of people, of love Yes it needs you to stand up and say im going to fight If you lay down then love shall tramble upon you But even if you fight, it doesn't mean you will win For love is like air, it can not be touched It can not be seen, nor can it be felt But it lets you breathe, it lets you live And without it you'll suffocate Don't tell me that love is a wonderful thing Because you can't know love until you've felt its wrath You can not know love until its returned And you can not know love until you know heartbreak So do not tell me how I felt And don't preach to me about how I should feel Because hundreds of years we've debated this topic And no one knows. It can't be confined. But you do not know love if you havent been in it. You may think you do, but trust me you dont For I know love, I felt it, I lived it. And now its gone. But it will come back one day. For thats the wonderful thing about love Perhaps its ultimate saving grace That no one who loses love, loses forever It comes back in a different form to consume you again And it gets easier to love, easier to learn Its not for one person and for one alone. I was in love once, so I shall be again And to know that, is when you really know love.