A DIFFERENT KIND OF LOVE

I did not find you in the way

they find each other

with their shallow hands

and hurried hearts

I found you

like a lost language

buried in the earth

every word unfamiliar

yet known to me in some

ancient part of my being.

They only know the fire

that devours.

But in you

I found the heat that lingers

after the embers die

the warmth that keeps

a body alive

through the coldest nights

Lust looks and leaves

But you-

You stayed

not as a possession

but as a presence

craving yourself into the walls

of my existence.

Even if the gods forgot our names

and the oceans swallowed

all the earth

I would still know you-

your soul would echo

through the hollow of mine

a sound eternal

a love beyond

the frailty of flesh

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