Love and Fear

I woke up this morning
 feeling entirely boggled
 at why

we constrict, constrain, control
  love.

In my own country,
  we are taught from the earliest years
  that love means a very specific relationship
  between two very specific people.

There is no room for love to be felt
  between people who don't fit the pre-defined roles,
  or to experience love in a different kind of relationship.

There is no allowance for the changing face of love
  to create its own definition of the most healthy
  relationship between those who feel that love.

Yet, love persists.
  It endows its blessings on all kinds of people,
  requesting new, different and evolving relationships
  to honor those people across situations and over time,
  inspiring acts of kindness and compassion,
  and generating creative energy for healing and growth.

So why, I ask,
  do we expend phenomenal energy trying to
  capture the most powerful force known to humankind,
  and force it into
  arbitrary boxes
  with boundaries
  designed to strangle and suffocate?

Why?

What fear in us drives us to run and hide
  from the source of creation, compassion,
  kindness, expansion, spiritual and human development?

It can't be a concern that love is limited...
  for love multiplies exponentially.

It can't be that the heart has only so much room for love...
  for even as space is kept for one love,
  another space opens up inviting in another love,
  and another,
  and another...

Perhaps, fear itself
  fears love.
  Fear can not exist with love.
  Like light illuminating the dark,
  love encompasses and dissolves fear.

So, in a vain endeavor to maintain its own
  stronghold on our hearts,
  fear wages war on love,
  hoping against all hope
  that we not actually experience
  real love.

For, if we do, we just may
  choose love over fear.