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"Love" Isn't Enough

Love Beyond Words

By J.MPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
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Photo: Babak Pejman Aryan / "When I Was Young..."

I am in Love.

Young and in Love.

This "Love"... naught more than concept

For what actually expands above

A most benign,

And unrefined,

Term of endearment.

"Love" does not capture

This throbbing, mournful ache

"Love" can’t encompass

All prior plans I would forsake

Just to have you;

Just to hold you;

Just to touch you…

At least to touch you?

To softly touch you...

God! "Love" is meaningless

in opposition to Love's powers -

Overwhelming

Beyond mere minutes, seconds, hours

Beyond all time

An Infinite spark passed down

Through our genetic line.

It re-animated

The machinery midst my ribs;

Showed life's worth more

Than automatic will to live.

And I'm an addict

For that which,

As of yet,

Is still described

(Though unexplained)

Through the simplistic.

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