The Speed of Love

Love is born with lightning bolts
Electro-magnetic force
Burning skin and fireworks
A storm on a raging course

Like a force of nature
Love can fade with the stars at dawn
Sometimes it takes all your strength
Just to keep holding on

At the speed of love
A radiance that travels
At the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

Love is born with solar flares
From two magnetic poles
It moves towards a higher plane
Where two halves make two wholes

Like a force of nature
Love shines in many forms
One night we are bathed in light
One day carried away in the storms

At the speed of love
A radiance that travels
At the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

At the speed of love
Nothing changes faster
Than the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

We don't have to talk
We don't even have to touch
I can feel your presence
In the silence that we share

Got to keep moving
At the speed of love
Nothing changes faster
Than the speed of love

Got to keep on shining
At the speed of love

At the speed of love
A radiance that travels
At the speed of love
My heart goes out to you

Now, I firmly believe in not being joined at the hip to another person. I don't think anyone doubts that Luis and I love each other deeply, fully, richly. But I am not one to tie him down nor him to me. I prefer that. I don't like smothering people. I don't like having my life fettered by another. It should not be that way. Luis travels and life goes on. I like it when he travels and then returns to me. My mother is lost without Ray (she also wants to be totally dependent on him whereas I will never be totally dependent on another human being unless I absolutely have to be). Alayna hates it when Tom is away. I don't want to be that way.

But I also believe that two halves do make two wholes, not one. We are one couple, one family. But we are still separate individuals. That is key for me. I don't want to be swallowed up into another's personality. I like my identity and I like being part of Luis' world... but not his identity.
I love Luis in a way that I will never love another person. I may turn a saucy eye to other men and feel the attraction, or have my crushes, but I will never love anyone the way that I love Luis, with all my heart and soul, with all that is wholly and uniquely me. He never need worry about that. Even if something happens to him or to us, I will love again, but not the way that I loved him. And not that I won't love another as much as he, but not in the same way as he. Because no one else is Luis. That is what makes my love for him different. Him, not the strength or conviction of it.

A radiance that travels

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