faint of heart

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the kind of passion that tests your limits

a love that asks for blood

what you feel in your skin and toes and lungs and bones

the kind of love that asks for courage

I’m that kind of a love

the kind you prove with your entire existence

you tremble as you create

Art

I’m worth all the work

I’m not for the weak, for the faint of heart

I’m not for those

who hold convenience close to their chest

I can’t stand conditional care

or masks that feign romance

while eyes behind them rest

I’m all for the devotion that dares

for the ones that will make a fool of themselves in the name of intimacy

I’m not for the calculative ones

I run from the oversmart

I’m not for faint of heart

-maithili

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