Onlyness
 
My heart pours
a heat so pounding
breath is silenced.
 
I don’t understand
how to love you
without hands.
 
I can only love
you with soul
not an allotment.
 
–something
to be cast off
in broken promises
of tomorrow.  
 
I can only love
you with crescendos
and echoes.
 
I can only love
you till I bleed.
 
I do not know
how to love you
with half
a heart.