Emergence From Nothing

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I Love You

You said it first

I wanted to wait until I meant it

Looking back

Knowing how you guard your heart

I see how vulnerable you made yourself

All the times your trust had been broken

Love betrayed

To give your heart to me

It meant everything

First Kiss

Under the trees

You said I was scared to kiss you

You were right

Without your dare

I wouldn’t have faced my fear

The Call

I knew it was you on the first ring

Too early in the morning

Too late in death’s grasp

Almost perfunctory

Denial

How can something so severe be denied

An open wound ignored

Until it’s reflected on another

To deny help in the depths of a bottomless well

Ignoring the rope swinging toward you

For better or worse