Are you whole now?
Are you happier than you've ever been before?
Is it everything you'd hoped for?
These are questions asked to those in love, it seems.

The problem is,
the answer is far too complex to explain
even to those closest to us;

it is of course yes,
for there is nothing comparable to the warmth of love,
to the tracing of you skin,
to the completeness of your entanglements,
the rhythm of each other
connecting you as one.

and yet,
it is of course no,
for you have to accept a level of dependence,
you need that person and
they become you to
an extent;
fragmenting the person you were before

yes, of course it is yes
but oh, how it is also a no