Truest love [2018]

There is a type of love,

Stronger than affection,

Deeper than memory,

Stranger than the love of thousands.

This love is beyond physical,

It rips at the soul like fire,

Breaks down self control,

With the need of the other.

The need to be a part of someone else.

Few have known it in this way,

Fewer still survived it,

It is destructive, 

And complete.

Love is not the right word, 

It is more than love,

More than true love even still,

A glimpse perhaps of something somewhere else.

It is an obsessive and fiery force,

That comes not from here but from there.

It sets your weary heart ablaze in sleep,

And your soul on fire while waking.

So few have known love like this, 

What is it that God,

Should allow me this privilege?

Love so exclusive, so defined and so pure.

That if I were to be with another, 

I simply could not give them,

what you have taken from my soul.

Nor would I want to,

It is yours, now and forever.

From one life, to another.