not forgotten subject

q: how do you know someone loves you?
my answer: i guess you will never know.

we tend to say things like this:
"i have given so much into the relationship, i was patient with you, supportive and caring. i love you so much..."

one might have love much, not until they verbalise the next sentence though.

"...how come you cant do the same for me."

i know action speaks louder than words. but once we begin to compare our actions on a scoreboard, it is no longer call love. must be the reason why i love to see new relationships. no matter how short that is, to see one forgets about themselves and their needs. if only all of us can keep that purity of love. hence my answer we-will-never-know, because it is time we stop asking ourselves that question. it is time we stop judging how much another love and just get busy loving, maybe that can help heal a lot of relationships.

still hoping to love without trying. still learning to love without asking for something in return. still waiting for one that will feel the same for me.

"Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds, it is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempts and is never shaken. Love alters not with time's brief hours and weeks, but bears it out." William Shakespeare