This is who I am....

As intense as my love is,

it's opposite habits in me.
I can't let myself be one
and don't let the other be.

It frightens me
well deep inside...
I know
it frightens you
to see this sight.

But what am I to do?
Deny one part to embrace it's
counterpart?
Accept one half
and reject the other side?
Don't you know, can't you see,
by doing this
I cease to exist?

There's no way
no path around,
no other way
but to see it through.

I'll embrace and
care and hold,
receiving as
a grace bestowed
the whole nature
of who lives in me
knowing that the one
without the other just
can't be.

-mcr