What do you find difficult to describe?

love...all the words i would use to describe it are inadequate. it's like trying to tell the nature of the universe by laying a few pebbles out in a pretty pattern. i find myself resorting to quotations from poets and novelists because it seems both safer and more satisfying. yet those don't always do justice to the depth of my feelings either. and when i feel the most, i have the hardest time saying what i feel. i can go on at length, poetically or prosaically, about mundane things. i can rhapsodize about the meal i had somewhere, the comfort of my bed, the sunrise. but when i want to tell someone how dear he is to me and how blessed i feel to be in his arms, i go mute. i can only resort to those 3 blunt and undescriptive words that are both overused and underused. i say "i love you" and my soul uncoils with joy at the truth of it and the rarity of the times i have had in my life to say so. i say it, and wonder if he knows how extraordinary it is for me to say it, how much it really means. i think so, i hope so, but i long for better words.

i must resort to quotes again:

"those three words are said too much, and not enough...i need your grace to remind me to find my own..."

"roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open."

"this night, there are no limits to what may be given...this is not a night, but a marriage."