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They certainly seem to be the things that determine real love and which then transform into a deep and meaningful love that will get us through rainy days, financial crisis, emotional trauma and heartache. The strange and somewhat mysterious phenomenon about true love is that it bears very little, if any, resemblance to those early psychedelic days of romantic love. This kind of love has nothing to do with watching the sun set, candlelit dinners, slinky underwear or spontaneous trips to exotic places. This love is all about normality, the mundane even. It is about sharing and caring, it’s about feeling a sudden surge of adoration because your other half has brought you a cup of tea in bed on a rainy morning - yes, I am afraid that is pretty much what it all comes down to!
Romantic love is still one of life’s great delights, even when Cupid’s arrow is way off target. It’s thrilling and delicious and we’ve all been there. And romantic love is not ageist - it can happen to any of us at any time in our lives. For some, it is a recapturing of youth, a remembrance of days gone by, a re-awakening of broken promises or lost dreams. For others, it is the promise of things to come, but whatever it is, it needs to be taken with a spoonful of sugar, at least until we are sure of its intentions. Love has given us our greatest sonnets, poems, films and songs. It has given us great lovers - Romeo and Juliet, Heathcliff and Cathy, Antony and Cleopatra, Elizabeth and Darcy (Brad and Angelina?) and it has given us joy and happiness. Love will be here long after we are all gone and it will doubtless continue to baffle, confuse, delight and enrapture generations to come.
Whether you are currently in the throes of a new and utterly romantic love or have found true and lasting love, it is surely something to treasure, to savour and to enjoy for as long as it may last. Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote: ‘tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. His words are definitely true, but how much better it is to have loved and to be loved in return?
So, do any of us ever get to experience true love? Of course we do - in the immortal words of Reg Presley - ‘I feel it in my fingers, I feel it in my toes, love is all around me and so the feeling grows ...’
Balloon by Graeme King I think that I might fly away, in my hot air balloon
And hide from worldly worries on the dark side of the moon; There’s but one thing I need before I float into the blue I need a sky companion and I want it to be you.
We’ll fly beyond the storm clouds and watch from up above I’ll cover you in rainbows as we feel each others’ love;
You’ll shower in the stars at midnight in our special place I’ll dry you with a comet’s tail and kiss your beaming face.
Dreamy drifting panorama, changing every day Every night your loving smile will be my milky way; The moon will wane before us, sailing there in heaven’s height For nothing else can challenge our love’s everlasting light.
Venus shining on us, glowing soft at our devotion Our daily drifting dalliance in love’s celestial ocean; I’ll write you lovers’ poetry, and you will be my muse Orion and Andromeda will oversee our cruise.
We’ll sleep with clouds as pillows, maybe steal an angel’s wings Then fly as magic lovebirds or slide round Saturn’s rings; And should we tire of drifting and the stars all floating by We’ll hook onto a meteor and soar across the sky.
Will you consent to be my mate on our celestial ship?
I’m ready, heart all packed with love, to last us for the trip; Take my hand and step aboard, we’re heading for the sun We’re flying ‘til we find the place where our two souls are one.
Cornish Brides : Autumn/Winter 2011 79
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