Not Halfway

If I fade and disappear
the matter will never clear
and we'll both feel cheated.
I don't like being so heated
but this is very, very real.
Unsolved, we'd never heal.

This love we have is old,
and yet it's time to be bold
else we may lose forever
initiative for endeavor.

My will is already paralyzed
because I have realized
what a bad joke life will be
if my love is not with me.
I feel frantic on the deep
as these feelings I keep.

But I don't want desperation
to become the last iteration
else I may lose my mind
if that is all that I find.

I need to know some action
without protection retraction
to make public commitment
and clarify all I've meant.

But you know very clearly
how strongly I hold you dearly.
Are we going to pay the price
or lose it all to be nice?
Others will recover, we may not.

We can't delay...we have a shot
or sharing our love as ought
else we hide and have naught.
We do or we don't, not halfway.

Now for your answer I pray.


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