Like the water

 of a deep stream, love is always too much.

We did not make it. Though we drink till

we burst we cannot have it all, or want it all.

In its abundance it survives our thirst.

In the evening we come down to the shore

 to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions of the dark.

 It does not hold us, except we keep returning to its rich waters thirsty.

 We enter, willing to die, into the commonwealth of its joy.

 Wendell Berry