Love

My harrowing heart
is clenched in a fictional fist which quickly contracts
at each and every thought that happens
happenstance across my mind
of you not here.
It aches 
because your brittle bones are broken
because there is an invading illness inside
I can not dispel 
our distance rips and tears the membrane of my sanity
until the time comes once again
to share the air
between us
the breath you expel becomes the tasty tempting tonic I inhale 
when you are inches away
my harrowing heart flies free
love
oh love
please return to me