Love

Love

I ripped myself open
one day,
to find something growing in my chest.
A small bud
getting larger everyday.
Its tendrils wrapping
around my lungs
to take my breath away.
Rooting itself so deeply
in my heart,
that to make it leave,
it would have to be torn from my body.
And even then
there would always be traces,
memories,
things I will never forget.
You are in my blood.