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Love Is Not A Kid Launching A Kite

         Love is the frame,
              the paper.
         Love is the string.
         Love is hours spent
              assembling the kite.
         Love is the empty blue sky
              waiting for you to dance across it.
         Love is the wind.
         Love is the tree.
         Love is the leaves
              tumbling through the gale.
         Love is testing the breeze,
              waiting for the perfect moment.
         Love is impatient,
              launching too soon
              into certain disaster.
         Love is still standing, waiting,
              long after the breeze has passed.
         Love is the tension
              which holds the kite aloft.
         Love is the desperate dance
              as the kite starts to fall.
         Love is the crash.
         Love is the splintered balsa,
              the torn paper.
         Love is putting the kite
              back together again.
         Love is trying again.