This poem is a riddle. You can solve it, either by finding a pattern hidden in each stanza or by understanding each stanza. If you are a human, the latter should be easier! If you are a machine, you probably won't be able to understand this - try your luck with pattern recognition.
Lots of thought has gone into it
Only to fathom it a little bit;
Very few have no clue why it’s a big deal
Even fewer don’t know how it does feel.
Laymen think it flows from the heart,
Or maybe it’s a wonderful form of art.
Views do exist that associate it with the brain,
Eventually it’s genes, hormones, neuron chain…
Let’s make a blunder and deviate from science,
Otherwise we’ll be studying neural network designs.
Varied might not be, our approach from the rest
Everyone seems to approve of this as the best!
“Let go the earnest urge to understand
Once you feel it, you’ll be in wonderland”
Voiced someone whilst sharing another thought:
“Exemplification is easy, but explanation is not”
Ladies and gentlemen, someday it makes them ‘fall‘;
On other days, they might ‘make’ it and keep it all…
Very close friends ‘value’, ‘show’ and ‘feel’ it firsthand;
Even our enemies ‘have’ it for mother and motherland
Lots regard it is as a ‘force’ of nature,
Others call it a ‘feeling’ from a well-wisher.
“‘Virtue’ it is”, enunciate some philosophers;
“Emotional ‘state’ of mind”, say a few others.
Long ago it commenced, and stays with us still,
On and on into the future it goes, I hope it will…
Veering at this point, I digress to my real question:
Exactly what is it and who makes it happen?
Laugh at me as I’m still confused…
Oh! What for has your time been used?
Vain attempt by me - utterly unfit
Ending where I began: “What is it?”