Love.

“Such, I have long known, is the paradoxical law of all sentiments having terror as a basis” – Edgar Allen Poe

“Therefore,” she says,

“If this is Love –

and love is nought

but Fear relayed

through actions of

dependency –

Then how” she asks

“can I be sure

of truth in me

being, sole, your Cure,

not fright of lone

Death’s remedy?”

“Because, My Girl,

the truth is this:

The only fear

that’s part of Us

is not the reason

for this Love.

It is the paired

heart’s only fear

that one will love

no more.”