Amore...

Quanto poche semplici parole possono dare ...e togliere...
Quando arrivi a dire "ti amo" ad una persona insieme a quel suono esce da te tutto l'amore che provi per raccogliersi nel cuore della persona a cui lo stai donando...
Tutti dicono che bisogna amare senza pretendere niente in cambio, ma quanto ci ferisce il solo sospetto di non essere totalmente ricambiati...
Nessuno potrà mai conoscere fino in fondo i pensieri ed i sentimenti dell'altro...ma quante aspettative gli buttiamo addosso...
Tutto dipende da cosa significa "amare" per noi...da dove nasce l'amore e fino a quali orizzonti si spinge...
Questi versi esprimono perfettamente la mia idea di amore...e cosa significa amare ed essere amati:

Love
I love you,
Not only for what you are,
But for what I am
When I am with you.

I love you,
Not only for what
You have made of yourself,
But for what
You are making of me.

I love you
For the part of me
That you bring out;
I love you for putting your hand
Into my heaped-up heart
And passing over
All the foolish, weak things
That you can’t help
Dimly seeing there,
And for drawing out
Into the light
All the beautiful belongings
That no one else had looked
Quite far enough to find.

I love you because you
Are helping me to make
Of the lumber of my life
Not a tavern
But a temple;
Out of the works
Of my every day
Not a reproach
But a song.

I love you
Because you have done
More than any creed
Could have done
To make me good,
And more than any fate
Could have done
To make me happy.

You have done it
Without a touch,
Without a word,
Without a sign.
You have done it
By being yourself.
Perhaps that is what
Being a friend means,
After all. ROY CROFT