A Tough Pill to Swallow

By: Zara Smith

I never really understood

the people who would say,

I love you so much it hurts.

I never comprehended

that complex dialectic.

It was quite unimaginable to me,

to my soul

without its other half,

to grasp the concept

of the two most intense opposites.

I never really could empathize

with what they all were saying

that is,

until I fell in love with you.