love defined

i am the curator

of my happiness

you are the maker

of your happiness

if by chance we meet

then we share

our own unique

places of joy

with each other

and the world

for each other

by each other

if by chance we fall in love

with the distinctive

bliss of one another

believe me

it is not

with an imaginary partner

but a real one

just as we are

it is a kind of respect

a memorization of a boundary

a marked trail through a forest

and yet it has the intrigue

of visiting a foreign land

and wanting to stay

longer than a day

we call it love

i call it peace

an invisible sanctuary

a gaze

a word

a touch

a foreign language

no one else knows

but us

~ patty

art- banksy