2 Hearts

Two lonely hearts
then 2 as one
never be alone
yet 2 as one
can be 2 still
living in same home

one heart here
and one heart there
doing what they do
this 2 as one
separate together
now again is 2

yet 2 is
twice as lonely
after being 2 as one
it isn’t fully 2 then
but 2 halves
of what was one

these ragged halves
leak heartness
as they stumble through their days
trying this
and trying that
to mend their separate ways

it makes hurt hearts
to be apart
once they have been as one
this dividing
into 2 then
must somehow be undone

one heart
softly wonders
has the other wandered far?
will the days
of hearts apartness
effect a lasting scar?

yet something
grew between them
when 2 hearts became as one
that couldn’t be
uprooted
once growing had begun

when love
replaced the lonely
between these 2 of hearts,
they’re never
truly separate
it’s true love that never parts

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