Love Doesn't Live Here

Love does not live here

And yet

It is all I know

And all I need

When I am with

The ones whom

My heart loves

I feel as if

It may never be fuller

Than it is

In that moment

When I am with

The ones whom

My soul loves

Whose laughter echos

In my dreams

And whose warm embrace

Lingers in my cells

Long after we part

I feel as if

I need no more

In this world

Than them

I can feel the love

Cling to my bones

And I can feel it

Tangled in my hair

Every minute

Of my day

And every second

Of my hour

This feeling

Does not come

From the soil,

The trees

Or the sun

It does not come

From the breeze.

It is from somewhere

We have never been

Love does not live here-