Fervently In Love

Note: This poem is another entry in Real Poetic's Mini Challenge which you can find here. The Prompt: Explore the theme of your greatest fear.

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You’re the only

Ghost I believe in

The only shadow

I flinch from

Your smile is

The only one that

Carves me up like

A butcher’s blade

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I’ve spent my whole life

Drowning in questions and

Craving closure but

Your what ifs are

What cling to my skin

Like leeches

Draining me of

Hope and healing

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You are everyone else’s sunshine

But to me you are the raindrops

That caress my heart

Making it stop and

Then speed up

You are the storm

The one I adore

Yet break for

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You:

Hauntingly, harrowingly

Never mine

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You:

The only one

I have fallen

Frustratingly, feverishly

Fervently in love with

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Out of all the

Logical, understandable

Fears in the world

I continually choose

The most shamefully

Weak and heartbreaking

One of all

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That you will never love me

(At least not as desperately

As I have always loved you)