Why love and not, for example, pandemic, loneliness, alienation, new normal, an even newer world and so on and so forth? It can also be

The wonderful Sappho once said, “Love, again, now, from which the limbs faint … shakes me: a sweet-bitter, irresistible creeper.”  Ἔρος δηὖτέ μ’ ὀ λυσιμέλης