Love Lies Compressed

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Love lies compressed within my lively heart,
hunkered down and tight, fisted like a stone,
firm against the pounding days, held apart
from the raging blood, anchored and alone.

This love of ours has little space to breathe
to grow as once a child it did, anew.
Though once it breathed the air of newborn breath,
dusted the days as soft as morning…