love remains

you're not the only one I love

for love is an ocean

and enveloping

all whom I have met with my soul

reached out to

and been answered

for you shall emerge

from this unasked for

unwelcome incursion

alive and whole

even if finest softest

and I shall kiss your scar

if you allow

… losing you would be

from a you-shaped hole

that nothing and no one else

could ever fill

when you told me

gave me the gift of your trust

before you knew what this was

we thought hoped expected

it be nothing

a harmless glitch in the matrix of your flesh

with you

how helpless I am

with no magic wand of healing

unable to make things right

wishing with all my being

that touch charged

with all my love and care and desire