Love makes you want. That’s all it does.
Did you think you loved her? That’s what it was.
Love needs an object, so you can care.
And during this time, wasn’t she there?
Wanting, in general, what you actually need
Is within you, but wanting what you don’t need
Is love, says philosophy.
Wanting what you don’t need is crazy.
If you have all you want, you get lazy,
So you try something new, you feed
Want itself; you want what you don’t need,
And this makes the wanted happy;
Wanted by pure want, not hunger or greed,
Is like being outside of the world, beyond all need.
So love has an otherworldly purity.
The first thought happened because
Someone said, ‘let’s want want, and see what it does.’
And when you loved? That’s what that was.