The Definition of Vulnerability

Here you go hold this for me

The heart I have poured and stitched and left

Every semblance of myself

It is yours to carry for this marriage

So in I do this for you

Every morn we choose

What we will with this complement

To invest respect for this contract of contact

Knowing the definition of vulnerability

Home in the balance that one could choose

To simply leave the contents on the counter

And disappear

For the other to return attempting to hold both

Still yearning for the betterment of the absent

In the mathematics of love, that this was never addition

Wherein the choice of one and one made logic

This was one and one make three

So in the interim of facing the negation of one

The sum still exists gasping for air under the nursing of the remainder

Knowing not what cessation implies

For a heart does what it must, not what it is compelled

For if by legality alone it could not be love nor vulnerable to such complications

So dance the human dance, subtly aware of what may fall

This gift of risk is but the tendered currency of the mad lovers born in exploding suns

We are but this posing and lifting in the grand ballet

Oh happy many yee brave dancers, applause to all!