Love Trigger Trauma -

She asks me,
from a sense of curiosity 
commandeering the comfort of her heart,
like clouds spilling a thousand secrets,
How are you feeling...
I want to suffer alone tonight...
But you can't be alone,
you have Me...
I just need the echo of darkness tonight...
But you can't be alone,
You have me...
I just need the echo of darkness tonight...
I can be your darkness...
You're so beautiful,
even in the darkness...
Just stay with me...
I want to stay with you...
What upset you,
tell me my Love...
I just want quiet pain tonight...
I love you...
I will see you in the dawn my Luv...

A love trauma storm 
has begun to soak my splitting soul 
with a million volts of ageless ache,
memories of innocence voicing exuberance 
pulses of naivety needing nothing more 
than a simple vibrant kiss 
on a virgin nerve,
being struck by the shock 
of multiple hearts held in one avericious hand,
experiencing vein ripping rage,
learning that divided loyalty
is a lip smack lasceration 
that can only be stitched by tears true,
and lonely moments soothed by gratitude 
gaslit into a nausea that ruptures 
the rock of devotion into a wilting will,

I have known both faces of love,
the one that makes the heart of a Man 
a fortress of flame and a beast of lust,
and the one that makes a Man 
the sword of a rogue warlord,
I also know that love is a monster 
of awesome appetite relentless,
love will devour you to the bone,
and that love will resurrect you 
from despair seemed certainty,

Through my conquest of internal confliction,
I have realized as rain in free fall,
that love is a conviction in real heartbeat,
a love ethic raw on the tongue of Time,
that the purpose of passion 
is not to please you 
but to preserve you,
to make meaning of your eyes,

We choose our conflicts 
as desire chooses a target,
I'll be your target as long as you set me on fire,
let's not make love a battle between 
the subjective and the objective,
let's make it an inviolable truth alive today,
let's say goodbye to expectations 
and to judgements rude,
let's just love one another with pure intent,
no conflict, no prediction,
no hesitation from hell,

My Luv, it's now dawn,
embrace me as Venus to flesh renewed,
I am your truth of wild taste,
and I your touchstone of life,
together we are poetry in primal ink...

J.A.B.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2026

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August 2, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Absolutely loved all layers of this. And the depth of what youv delivered plus also the way you didnt stay in darkness… you embraced the dark and found your light! Pleasure reading this ~ sending you light always 💫 🌙 💫 🌹 Ofcourse its a fave!
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August 2, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Yes Poetess, I found my back into the light of love the following morning...thank you...J.A.B.
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August 2, 2026 at 11:42 AM
The opening and the ending is beautiful and touching awww! Makes me tear up too 🤧🥺true love is being able to ~ separate inner conflicts from taking it out on their wife ~ beloved etc! In your case I believ this is about your wife of life! So well… she is blessed to have you! As for me love without expectation is not for me personally. My book of love comes with many rules ~ number 1: DONT LIE TO ME i will find out! Number 2: DONT let your eyes and mind wander 😈 😂 well thats just me!
Bordner Avatar
August 2, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Yes, my Wife of Life remained strong for me during this love crucible. My rule is to not self sabotage the greatest love I've ever known. Also, I believe in changing with my Wife, and not trying to make her something that she never was, could not Be, or would not Be, and she feels likewise with me Poetess.
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August 2, 2026 at 11:38 AM
hurts, and the impact it could have on someones mind and emotions etc I know it all so well, and so this epic poem really did hit deep! And I can see that this is written by a philosophical poet! Your way of phrasing your thoughts on what love is, the duality of it all, and how the reality can be sometimes challenging is so very impressive and moving! Anyone who reads this secretly without commentin 🤧🥹😂 would agree with me! Come on ghost readers give me a 🙌🏻 lol (can hear them agree)🫠
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August 2, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Deep impact through genuine feeling is everything Poetess. As I was experiencing self discovery through love and the ensuing creative process of this write I was thinking the same thing; that anyone who has ever experienced love trauma, or whom is in love will relate. Or for anyone whom hasn't fallen in love yet and wonders, this write will entice them to venture into love...
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August 2, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Dear Justin, First of all, it makes me happy always for some reason to see men express deep emotions, without hesitation, that is true masculinity, and we live in a world that confuses feminism, not understanding how important it is to accept that men too go through emotional and various other forms of trauma, you are so strong and so brave and so courageous, and I am so sorry you experienced such ~ love trauma, it isnt easy, well ~ I can be walking trauma too 🥹 for some! Betrayal and how it
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August 2, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Trauma is a tempest of truth that teaches us the meaning of Nature, our own, and that of the world itself Poetess. Also, we learn through trauma to not live or act upon preconceptions and prejudgements...
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