Love Poem: Overwhelming
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Written by: Helen J Radford

Overwhelming

It stifles me - 
the heavy breathing down my neck. 
I feel the force of your love 
overwhelming in its intensity 
and it stifles me. 

You  think you know me 
but you love a memory, and you 
mould and cajole until it materialises 
into tangible reality, 
but it stifles me. 

You said I would fly 
yet you clip my wings and contain me. 
You speak my words and you restrain me. 
You rock me this way and that, 
and it unsettles me. 

You stifle me with good intention. 
You say you love me 
but forgot to mention 
that I would drown in this 
adoration, struggling for air 

as it stifles me. 
This deluge has overcome me 
and I am falling from my pedestal, 
falling from grace, I must escape, 
because it stifles me.