Is This Love?

When you ask him to come home early

So that you can dine together

Is this love?

When you force him to go on a diet

Because you both need to lose some weight

Is it love?

When he offers to rub your back

Knowing that you've had a hard day at work

Is it love?

When your friend has lost a loved one

And you hold her hand in silence

Is it love?

When you offer shelter to a homeless person

Or food to a destitute

When you visit the aged, the sick, the dying

When you pray for, or with someone who's in deep despair

When you forgive someone who hurt you

Tell me, is it love?

Or is it more than that?