That unattainable thing

If I could love just once like this, Whether inconsistently, or giving up all reality, If I could take your one sweet breath, From the air that hangs millimeters below cliffs, If I could brace against all odds, To wander resolute and lonely after you are gone If I could write the perfect words, that all mankind Would read, and re tell my story, feel my love and weep for me If I could see just how you see, beyond this vessel to the very part of me, Which cries out in detested lust and jealousy, To assimilate the very essence of you, which keeps me in invisibility, If I could be, If I could just love like this once, I would love like you love me, and I love you, If I could love at all, it would be for you To give up the tiniest of things in the universe, And the biggest thing of all…