Three women discuss the meaning of love.. . . Maria: David proposed a week ago! I never knew what love is until he came along. Carin: Really? You think you know it all, do you? Well then, enlighten me. Maria: Love is everything. It is the creator of life, the sustanance of happiness, and the only thing that makes the trials of this Earth worth while. A life without love is like a sky with no sun. Diana: You only say that because you have love. What about those of us who have only been tortured by Cupid’s cruel wrath? What if love is only there to spite us? Carin: Give up wounded soldier. This is a war that nobody wins. It will only torture you until you let go. Maria: Oh, but love is no war! It is the greatest bliss! The greatest peace! The greatest feeling you’ll ever have! Carin: For now. Love is the highest high followed by the lowest low. Love does not last! It will only live as long as we labor to keep it thus. When the fight overpowers us, we all surrender in the end. Maria: We surrender to love. Diana: I long for someone who will fight for me. Where is my knight in shining armor? When will he come? Maria: Fear not, for your wait will end someday. He is afoot, and merely riding to your rescure still. Carin: He is no savior! He is your slayer! Maria: Only the slayer of your fear. Carin: Your saccharine charm and honey tongue don’t fool me. Maria: I speak the truth. Someday someone will change your ways. Diana: I yearn for such a someone with so much fervor that it hurts. Carin: We always do, until we realize that it’s all a delusion. Even Maria will face reality someday. Maria: I certainly have, and so will you. Diana: Why does it seem as though love will never choose me? Will it ever be my turn? Maria: Love is not for a select few. It is for any who are open to receiving it. Carin: And they are fools. Love will destroy you! Maria: But no! Love will revive you! Love is the light in the darkness, the hope when all is lost! Carin: Dead love is the darkness. Diana: I am lost in the darkness. Maria: You won’t be lost forever. Carin: You won’t be in love forever. Maria: Love can endure all hardship. Love is far more powerful than time and its manifests. Carin: Only in fairytales. Diana: Why can’t fairytales be reality? Maria: When your find true love we have no need for fairy tales. Carin: You think your life is a fairytale! Diana: I am losing my faith in love. Will God save a miracle for me? Maria: He saves miracles for Carin, but an angel for you. Carin: And you know the ways of God? Diana: Does anyone? Maria: Love is faith. One must have faith in love. Diana: And faith in God. Carin: They both are dead.