"Love" and "Love" on "Love Day"

A close friend of mine related to me two weeks ago what to him was a funny incident, where still another friend said "What's the point of a "Love Day" if I have to be "loveless"??? To my close friend, the very idea of being "loveless" is absurd. "Of course, his mother loves him, and she may likely even consider him handsome!"
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.........."Aw, you know what he means with that term!" I chided him. "Love in that sense doesn't include a mother's love!" Which made my friend laugh all the more. "A mother's love is the nearest thing that can be compared with God's, and it doesn't qualify to be called 'love?'"
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..........Levity aside, we both agreed that when we and other people mention the four-letter L-word, we usually refer to the romantic kind. And we seem unable to dissociate the word from that sense. Which is why people reacted to me when first talked about this Sing Out our Love, Peace, Joy project and reminded me, not without guffaws, that Love is something we don't have to promote consciousness about. "Let instinct handle it!" they said and reminded me that the planet is already operpopulated as it is.
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..........One friend I took pains to explain to about the need to promote "universal," or "agape" or "non-romantic" love suggested that I compose a new song about the need for this underplayed love, so the people would somehow rediscover it and apply the word "Love" to it. At first I refused, saying i don't want to pit one kind of love against another, especially the more preferred or popularly overfocused on. But in the days that followed, he put it in the form of a challenge. "Just because you have been a widower for almost two decades, just because you have become overaged for romance doesn't mean your creative juices about romantic had dried up, too!"
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..........And so, i decided to take the challenge. Uto-uto! And came up with these lines for lyrics:

. .Minamahal, Iniibig

.........Lahat kong kapwa ay minamahalaga

.........Mahal kong sapat upang ipagluksa

.........Ang bawat patak ng luha sa mata,

.........Ipagdiwang naman, ang bawat tuwa nila.

.........Ngunit mayro’ng mithing makatambal,

.........At tunay na maligayang makaniig

.........Sa salubungan ng malayang pagpili

.........Ng tanging katuwang sa pag-ibig…

.........Makaisang-tibok sa bawat pintig,

.........Palagiang kahalikan ng aking puso,

.........Bubuhay sa lahat kong himaymay

.........Na gamit lamang ay init ng dampi.

.........Kayakap ko sa kaluluwa’t diwa,

.........Kadaloy pa ng isip ko’t dibdib.

.........Siya, siya nga ang aking iniibig

.........Kami sana’y pipintig nang magkasanib.

.........Magtatambal Kami sa tuwi-tuwina

.........Magmamahal sa lahat naming kapwa

.........Sa pagsusulong ng malay na lahat ay iisa

.........Sa dakilang kabuuan ng Sangnilikha!

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..........But up until this time, eve of Valentine's Day, the so-called "Love Day," I haven't been able to compose a melody that would convincingly carry the feelings lodged in the poetry of the lyrics. Instead of a convincing song, i ended with just poetry. He was right, my creative juices about romantic love had indeed all dried up. For good? Maybe, but things can still change back to my earlier songwriting days if I got surprised by a fulfilling experience between now and the time my blood itself will dry out instead of registering high figures for blood pressure. And I'm not in the mood to calculate the odds for that possibility coming through.
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..........For the moment, i'm more concerned with bringing the message of relating the two main different types of love that would radiate from the same set of hearts in the same set of humans. Beyond the human reproductive instincts, that is.
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..........Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! I had once drawn for LightShare Digest book magazine a queer-looking symbol for "Valentine-Love." And it looks like this:
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