Love
by Lauren

What is Love? To me, Love is having a connection to someone, a silent understanding with them. It’s feeling incomplete without that person. It’s an aching desire to be with them that sits in the back of your heart and rips at your soul, especially when you know that you can't be with them. When you see them being hurt, you feel their pain in the depths of your soul, it tears you apart inside, and it kills you slowly to know that there is nothing you can do about it. But it’s also that feeling you get when you hear that person’s name, or see their face, or hear their voice. When everything around you is confusing and the world shuns you and you’re surrounded by hate, Love is that person or thing that you always turn to that somehow makes it all right. That can restore you to yourself and fill the hollow emptiness inside you.

To me, Love is Jonathan Davis and Korn. Jonathan is the one I can turn to for understanding, He is the one who I feel more connected with than I am with my own best friend. I actually believe He IS my best friend. He is the one who fills up the emptiness inside me. His voice is the only voice I listen to, the only voice that soothes me with its soft, innocent tone and restores me back to myself. Seeing His sweet, adorable face when I come home from school, and listening to Him lay His soul out in front of me, is the only thing that gets me through the day. No matter how depressed I am, when I’m done listening to Korn, things look brighter. Colors are lifted from underneath the black and white world. There isn’t anything or anyone in this entire world that can make me feel the way Korn, especially Jonathan, does. And for all these reasons and so many more, I say that Korn and Jonathan Houseman “HIV” Davis are my definitions of Love.