Love Poem: Infinitives

Infinitives

It’s one thing to write
            it’s another thing to feel
to feel and not profess
            For the sake of being
alive and filled with blood
            we cast ourselves aside
You don’t know how you feel
            but you know more than I
what it means to want, to miss
            to be cold, to be afraid,
to lack, to love, to lose
            to have and have not
the things you need most
            All I know, and feel
is the growing need to hold
            and to be held.

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