love is

dictionary.com says:

1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
3. 1. Sexual passion.
   2. Sexual intercourse.
   3. A love affair.
4. An intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object.
5. A person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment

agape:

1. Christianity Love as revealed in Jesus, seen as spiritual and selfless and a model for humanity.

2. Love that is spiritual, not sexual, in its nature.

3. Christianity In the early Christian Church, the love feast accompanied by Eucharistic celebration.

in chinese:

a poet wrote:

I met a lady in the meads,
...Full beautiful--a faery's child;
Her hair was long, her foot was light
...And her eyes were wild.
I made a garland for her head,
...And bracelets too, and fragrant zone;
She looked at me as she did love,
...And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
...And nothing else saw all day long,
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
...A faery's song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
...And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said--
..."I love thee true!"

(keats)


Why do you tell some one you love them?

because you need to hear the same thing back?

Because you want them to know?

Because you think you should?

Do you say it to make up for all the things you never did?