Kinds of Love

Thank You God for my family's love.

Thank You for all my loving friends.

Thank You gifting me to love myself.

Each kind of love is a very different.

I need all the different kinds of loves,

Like I need a vast array of nutrients.

Only, "loves" are emotional nutrients.

As starch cannot substitute protein,

One love cannot substitute another.

I feel thankful for each unique love.

There is one kind of love I still await.

I feel the void, nutritional deficiency.

As a hungry man dreams of foods,

She mists her way into my dreams.

I dream she's next to me, a pillow away.

I open my eyes to her sheer absence.

I close them again to re-envision her,

Alas, my alarm clock beeps too loud.

When will I share shelter with her?

When will our dates be unending?

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