The Intensity of Love

It's the fire no ocean could quell,

a heat beneath skin, searing

through every pulse, an electric hum

of being alive in the presence of another.

 

Love is an uncharted storm

raging quietly in the veins;

no hands can grasp it,

no mind contain it,

it slips, shifts, floods every silence

with the whisper of its impossible need.

 

And yet, it's delicate, too;

the breath that catches

between words,

the glance that folds

time upon itself.

It's in the empty space

between bodies

where all things combust

and surrender.

 

It breaks you open,

but it's the breaking

that keeps you whole.

It's the longing that lives

inside you forever,

a flame that neither ends

nor begins;

just burns. And burns.

Because love is always too much,

but never enough.

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