Love is All

 Love Has Held Me Close

What we have been through 

simply cannot be expressed,

So many tortured moments 

lived within,

Lived through,

Barely lived at all,

Heartbreakingly borne witness to,

Can never be completely recaptured on a page.

All I can say is that love has led the way

And love has held me close

Even when touch was impossibly hard to bear.

Love has been the guide

And the victor

In a story too painful to fully recount.

Years of fractured moments

Dissolving self into virtually nothing

Have been held together by the brightest spark of hope,

Held high by my beloved

Till helplessness

And hopelessness

Have simply flown away,

Comforted by a warmth of love that never wanes

Or dissolved away with the countless tears

That washed me clean for just a moment

Long enough to feel the truth

That we are greater than any suffering.

Your love remains a tower of strength 

In the darkest night

And holds me to each tomorrow

With its golden light.

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Love is all.