Is Feeling Love, Love Itself?

"If it isn't love,Why do I feel this way?
Why do they stay on my mind?
If it isn't love,Why does it hurt so bad?
Make me feel so sad inside,If it isn't love?"

 Feeling lovable, loving and loved are all probably reasonable labels for emotions that flow out of love itself. Those feelings may come and go but the love that underlies them is probably most accurately understood as stable, dependable and consistently present, not temporary. It is reasonable to think that it takes a lot more than a mere, temporary emotion to achieve all that. It is true that a person saying they love you may have what can be called varying and various love feelings for both, along with that love, but there is far more to love than just those feelings.