Love, the Great Equalizer

"All is fair in Love and War, " so we often quote. War is a terrible equalizer that brings fear, sufferings and bereavements but love....Love is the great equalizer, that brings joy to the heart, mind and soul. Love encompasses everything that is sweet, patient and kind and never indulges in the faults of the loved one but embraces everything with tolerance, kindness and patience always believing in the uplifting of the spirits and hearts that are broken...love stands when all else has fallen....love remains when all else has gone.

somewhere i have never traveled,
gladly beyond any experience,
your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture
are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch
because they are too near
your slightest look
easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself
as fingersyou open always
petal by petal
myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)
her first rose
or if your wish be to close me,
i and my life will
shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower
imagines the snow carefully
everywhere descending;  
nothing which we are to perceive
in this world
equals the power
of your intense fragility:
whose texture compels me
with the colour of its countries,
rendering death
and forever with each breathing
(i do not know what it is about you
that closes and opens;
only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes
is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain,
has such small hands.

e.e.cummings