Love Consists Poem by MacGregor Tagliaferro

Love consists in this:

That two solitudes,
come together
and discover
they cannot be
without each other.
Two solitudes
that protect and guard
each other always.
Two solitudes
that touch each other
in ways they never
ever touched before.

Unrequited love
consists in this:

That two solitudes
come together
and discover
that only one
cannot ever be
without the other.
Only one protects
and guards the other.
Only one touches
as if never touched.

So the question
that haunts my nights
and torments my days:
Why did she not love
the way I loved her