Love — What Is It?
Short Collection of 10 poems
Love — What Is It?
This is a question that has always haunted my mind. A concept that has always marked me and, through my curiosity, launched me into a quest for understanding.
I have spent a large part of my life searching for an answer to what love is, to what it truly is. I let myself be carried away, I lived, I observed. In short, I accumulated my share of experiences — a share that is still far from sufficient to provide a satisfying answer.
I loved, I suffered, and I also caused suffering. And at a certain point, I found myself thinking that love did not exist. That it was nothing more than an illusion. A form of mental manipulation and a hollow feeling.
I know many people tell themselves these words.
Then, through my tribulations and my observations, I came to ask myself a question: what if love was not the problem?
When I reflected and tried to understand the nature of love — how to find it, how to live it — I realized that I had been letting myself drift with the current of society. The beliefs of the world.
The standards.
And then, a feeling settled deep within me: I had never truly taken the time to understand love on my own.
It is true that I know the definition of love from books, cinema, dictionaries, or from the world itself. I repeated these words to myself often. But those words were not mine. Those definitions were not mine.
How can one truly love and build a stable relationship when one does not even know who they are, or which form of love suits them best?
A sentence then echoed in my heart, as if love itself were speaking to me: it is not love that has changed, but the hearts of men.
Our society has changed — our beliefs, our habits. Love is not an isolated feeling; it is an energy that inhabits all of this. We have changed. We endure life instead of living it, and because of this, we have lost sight of the very essence of love.
So, I wrote. Or rather, I allowed myself to become the pen through which love finally speaks. A tolerant love, an angry love, a benevolent love — a guiding love.
And these writing sessions left me with a simple, accessible, and sacred work: The Secret Book of Love.
A collection of ten poems in which love speaks directly to humanity. To remind us of what it truly is, what it truly does, what wounds it, what angers it, and above all, how to find it — and where to find it.
The book is now available on Amazon, and will soon be on Gumroad. The secrets of love are for everyone; they belong to every heart.
For I know this, with certainty:
WITH LOVE, OUR LIVES CAN ONLY BE MORE BEAUTIFUL AND MORE JOYFUL.
About The Secret Book of Love
This book wasn’t written to define love.
It was written to listen to it.
The Secret Book of Love is a short poetry collection where Love speaks for itself — sometimes gently, sometimes painfully, always honestly. Across ten poems, Love confronts us, confesses, guides, and reminds us of what we often forget.
This is not a romantic fantasy.
It is not a self-help manual.
It is a mirror.
A passage.
An invitation to listen.
And you’re already part of the conversation.
Your support helps this quiet work continue — and reach other hearts who may need it.
Warmly,
Odel A.