What Is This Thing You Earthlings Call Love?

Love drives the wolf from the door

Love drives your mum to the airport

Love lifts you up on gossamer wings

Love is a many-splendored ting

like a bag of Liquorice Allsorts

 

Love frees up the soul

Love opens up the prison

Love brings light and hope to us all

that love is constant, eternal

It  keeps going just like John Chisum

 

Love is the gaffer, love is the boss

Love gets the mountain moved

Love soothes the savage beast

(or is it breast?

Well, one of them gets soothed)

Love brings the kettle to the boil
Love thickens up the custard
Love is oh so bitchin'
steaming up the kitchen
You'd better believe it, buster

 

 

SHAHNA: Yes, this is all very well Jim but I don't think you've really answered my question. I still don't feel as if I know what love is. What IS love?

James T. Kirk proceeds to spend the next ten minutes trying to show Shahna exactly what love is, as fully and comprehensively as possible within the time available, with the aid of pie charts and a globe artichoke. After he takes his leave of her and is beamed aboard the Enterprise, she looks up at the sky...

SHAHNA: Goodbye, Jim Kirk. I will learn. And watch the lights in the sky. And remember.

B.R. 16/01/2014