Loving Pains

Yes, I am in pain.
But it is not an unbearable pain.

I want to sit with it.
I want to be with it while you still feel so close.
I want it to fill every part of my being.

It is not an unbearable pain.
It is a pain that comes from loving so much,
From feeling so much a part of the child I have born.

Nothing has ever touched me like this.
Nothing has ever found every crevice in my body and
My mind and dwelled there like you have.

This is not an unbearable pain.
It's the pain of loving you.

-Linda Nuccitelli