Ravening beast?

What is love is it a ravening beast

Is it mainly lust on a body to feast

Does that longing and awe

Have to gnaw at the soul

Does it titilate the senses

Make us insane

What is love is it a ravening beast

Is it joy exquisite and misery ceased

Where is the balance between

The want and the need

The caring and sharing

On which it must feed

When is love just tender and pure

Not just longings we have to endure

Its tendrils are there to be nutured

To grow

In the early days of love lust

We know not what we sew

Maybe we learn from loves early mistakes

It’s important to survive those early heart breaks

To tame the heart of the ravening beast

To find eternal happiness

Is a goal we may never reach