Present tense. We love. Future tense. We will love. Past tense. They're strung with the force of expectation or the weight of disappointment; each ready to snap forward with progress or to fall heavily with our hopes.

The past is layered heavily. Perfect. We loved. Pluperfect. We had loved. Future perfect. We will have loved. Perfect was never meant for now, only in faraway dreams and long gone realities.

There's a little if, if we had done this or that. If we met a condition or were finished and it's something past. We had loved, and now it's lost. We will have loved, if we had done it right.

Imperfect. We were loving. Incomplete, interrupted, infinite. Possibilities still exist for the unfinished and the unsure. Potential exists for better or for worse.

I'll laugh at those who want perfect love, because it's been completed, gone. I'll take the imperfect, the continuous quest towards perfect, which anyone wise knows is never done.