Your poem purveys your message well and will be understood by many who are, as are most of us, conditioned to consider 'love' to be a precious, remarkable and admirable emotion.
In fact, love is largely a common myth, just as is an omnipotent deity. So many have been conditioned to believe it that to not do so is regarded as strange, not quite right or even indicative of someone very bad.
This conditioning to talk of 'love' in usually glowing terms and its loss as something incredibly painful and traumatic, is maintained largely through two illusions.
The notion of 'blood' relationships or 'family' is one of these illusions. It maintains the fiction that because people have the same parents or are directly related, they almost certainly must love each other. It is not hard to find that this is fiction.
The romantic ethos around love is the other illusion and possibly the more damaging one. Its absurdity and its potential for danger is also easily revealed by nonsense such as 'love at first sight', 'I will always love you', 'You're the only one I'll ever love' and so many other tawdry phrases. The appallingly sad side of this lies in the notion of 'marriage', whether by church, civil ceremony or common law. Far too often these 'love' relationships turn quickly sour and often result, most often for the woman, to be a living hell and far too often, their physical or sexual abuse and even death.
The thing is, that contrary to popular belief or understanding, love is selfish. It is about one's own feelings of pleasure, sensation, reward and such. Yes, there will be demonstrations of affection for the other party and in many cases, perhaps even the majority, a positive motivation. However, it is still based on a concept that is illusion and expectation based on conditioning and 'what people do', rather than reality.
For me, what is most precious to give and receive is empathy. Indeed, empathy cannot exist without the contribution of both parties and each putting the other first. It is built on understanding, nuance, selflessness and a true sharing and transparency. It enriches relationships because it is unselfish. It is about freely giving of oneself without reserve and of continually contributing the caring and effort to understand the other - to use another tawdry phrase but one with more worth, I think, it is akin to 'walking in another's shoes'.
Take care. Stay safe. ☮️
