love

voluptuous expectations,
filled with fantasy and dreams
tempered by the personae of those
within the heartlines
and what lies within
those
hearts.
unfilled.
changing.
growing.
dying.
safe together
in their world
but not safe
from the world,
around them.
walls crumbling under
the weight
unresolved and unhealing.
reality, with its harsh, hurtful
tentacles.
still reaching for the warm
caresses from what
we wish is
love's sun.