L is for love’s early phase, all hot and bothered
all fractious, disruptive restless, in doubt

E is for eliciting confirmation from others
who tell you it’s real, dubious or not

A is for arrow straight through the heart
the pain of the piercing love’s peculiar stress

P is for pain-free when new love departs
established and certain is when love is best

This week Lisa appropriately asked we dVerse poets to use the leap year as a prompt. https://dversepoets.com/2024/02/27/dverse-poetics-tuesday-2024-poets-leaping/