Cross My Heart (I hear you)

This boy
speaks
through all the depths
of my being
– not
my heart he carries
away
but the We
leaving such an ache.

The distance
tearing us
again and again
into
him.  me.

Sliding
between our
two worlds
I am more –
and less
than
before we met.

Once
other hands
protected me

Walking through these fields
feeling
the strength
of his hand now
I struggle to stand
all over again.

What is this           love?

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