When you really love someone, they become a part of you. Two wholes who merge to form one unstopped force. This is an amazing phenomenon. To know someone so intimately, to feel them so deeply.
Poets have spent lifetimes trying to find the words to adequately describe this sensational force, to create such beautifully written lines that our soul stands up and takes notice. Recalling the sounds, the touch, the taste, the smells – like an early morning dream softly fading from memory.
When you find that one person who can make your soul stand at attention, who’s presence can silence the entire world, as soon as they put their arms around you, you feel all of your problems melt away, like butter sliding across a hot pan. And with no words spoken, you know that everything will be okay. Because no matter what you have to face in life, nothing will ever be stronger than this – this impossible force of cosmic energy.
Because of this phenomenal connection you also feel all the hurt, the pain, the fear. Your mind suddenly goes blank and all you can think about is them. Your chest tightens and your breath quickens, like two cold, bony hands tighten their grip around your throat. Your stomach drops out and all you can feel is emptiness. You’re lost. You’re scared. You’re confused. All you want to do is take all of their pain and wrap yourself in it. Take it away from them. Consume it. It’s heavy and thick, like a dense cloud. You can’t see through it, you can’t move it. It begins wrapping itself around you, gripping tighter and tighter as it forces its way down your throat. You feel defeated.
And then, laying there with that dense cloud filling your lungs and slowly pouring from your mouth, you begin to choke and cough as you remember that you’re not alone. And they’re not alone. You are two wholes who merge to form an unstoppable force. And as the warmth of the sun breaks through the darkness, you see them. Standing above you with their hand extended, lifting you from what’s left of the cold, dense fog.
They wrap their arms around you, and you feel it all melt away.
The Book of Love 