This Love Poem by Melissa Joy Chesky

I’m grabbing strength from where none exists.
My deficit is growing.
I want to fall
But to fall is to lose
I want to win —
But at the expense of your love?
I want to make a point –
But at the expense of your voice?
To break, to unravel in the light
Is too much to sacrifice.
But to fall apart in the dark
Is where the bravery truly starts;
Where dreams mutate in this dimmed reality
Where you turn to stone,
Your heart to ice
And your voice dies in my ears
And to not have this love, THIS LOVE
It’s devouring me,
You took more than your fair share of my heart
My insides are concave,
I’m wasting away without this nourishment,
THIS love, this nourishment…
That’s all I have…