The Meaning of Love

I don't know much about love
but I do know this
love does not grant you permission
to demean or degrade me
love is not a pass to treat me disposably
love is not always patient
love is not always kind
love fades
love hurts
love is an action not a adjective
it does not describe an emotion
but is to be personified constantly
love is suppose to be shown actively
love is to be reciprocated
love is something that most people don't even know
love is a word people use to manipulate
love is hard as fuck
love fades
love elevates
love is beauty
because there is beauty in pain
pain is the one thing that can and will transform you
love is the ashes the Phoenix rose out of
those who have never lost love
dk what true pain is
and can never understand true compassion
those who have lost loved
loved without being loved back
those are the people who truly know
how and what love is
I was born in the abyss
I rose from the darkness
despite the pressure of others self hatred
holding me down
Ive loved hard
and lost even harder
I've loved people more than myself
and felt that devastating disappointment of not being loved back
but I refuse to stop loving
I refuse to not give my love as freely as air is given
I will love hard until the end
and for those who didn't love back
its ok
I love you anyway