How Can Love Be Measured?

sweetcindy Poems

Love: Affection, Admiration, Lust, Adoration... There are at least 65 different definitions of the word. Feelings that inspire books of poetry or expressions of love unheard. How is it measured? Perhaps with a caliper to measure its depth and breadth. Or with a sound meter To measure the volume and decibel or the whispering of a breath. Could you measure it in pints or cups or ounces in a measuring cup? "My cup runneth over" Can it be measured with a thermometer? "I'm burning up." How heavy is true love - can it be weighed on the scales? Can you measure love with a compass - to what degree does love prevail? Can a speedometer track the speed by which one falls in love? Or an odometer measure the distance at which love can still be felt? Can you use a syringe to limit your doses of love before it's lethal? Can you attach a heart monitor and check how a lover's heart beats faster or the health of their love - strong or weak? Can the rhythm & harmony be counted out on a metronome Can a polygraph test prove it is true? Can the magnitude of love be measured using a microscope, binoculars or a telescope - maybe Hubble. How does one know how to bring it into "focus"? How mysterious that love is so indistinguishable, so immeasurable, so evasive & yet SO BIG! Yet no one - except for God - knows the true measure of Love & its ability to heal, to hurt.