They say love hurts
But who are they?
Longing hurts,
Distance hurts,
Rejection hurts -
That's nothing of love.
Love is the way your eyes look
When you've forgotten your inhibitions;
Love is the way your heart looks
When you strip it bear for me to see,
And the way the relief rests
When I don't turn in disgust -
I ask again, who are they?
There's no need for pain here
There's enough of it to forget already
From everywhere else.
I don't see love as pain
I won't.
I was told once
It's because no matter how close you get to someone
It's not close enough
You can never really touch them
There's always space between your cells
That's the pain?
You can't touch yourself, if that's the case
And that's pain?
I feel closer to you than I do myself
You have taken residence inside my heart
A role inside my brain
And use my veins as roadways
To get to and from work
How fast is a heartbeat?
How omnipotent can one person be?
How could anyone say we don't touch?
You're more of me than I am
Is that pain?
That's completion.