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Love

Today in the car
I heard a love song
"Please love me,
save me from this death,
this emptiness where my heart
once lived."

It was in Spanish, so I thought
it sounds true, but in English it would sound

Ridiculous, people don�t feel this way, not really, a bit overblown,
perhaps, and who
would admit to feeling that way, embarrassing, to say the least

Always the question is, "Why did you stay with him/her?"
You deserve better than that, what in you made you choose
to stay so long
in such a dysfunctional relationship, after all love is a choice". I agree
 

these things are true except that when its gone
love grabs you, wrenches
the blood from your veins,
drags an emptiness through your throat,
howling with a voice like darkness
akin to the void of death
like a straight edged razor

love cuts through your eyes, makes you blind to sunlight,
to anything but rain or the dry desert wind

it's like walking through a circle of fire,
the dry heaves, the sobs,  the groaning, the longing

the impossibility
of such great loss.



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