all you want to see is make believe

love isn't an act. it's a whole life.
it's staying with her now because she needs you;
it's knowing you and she will still care about each other when
sex and daydreams, fights and futures-
when all that's on the shelf and done with.
love-why, i'll tell you what love is:
it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one,
each of you listening for the other's step in the next room,
each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry,
could mean a lifetime's talk is over.

- brian moore