Boundless and Bare

Can love have limits and still be called love?

Should not it be a boundless energy?

A bond so strong that all the world can see,

And not fly off as if it were a dove?

I know it's something for which we both strove,

Enthralled within our blessed ecstasy;

The process where the I's became the "we,"

Ensconsed with our beloved treasure trove.

But worlds are not as perfect as we want,

We cannot bend them to our own hearts' will;

The ghosts of pasts do follow us and haunt,

They leave us panting out of breath and taunt,

Can love have limits and be called love still?

Love holds its own e'en when it seems so gaunt.

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