holding-someone

Sometimes by holding onto what you love the most _ you end up choking the very life from the thing you want to keep on living. It__ possible to try too hard, to love something so deeply that you lose yourself. The danger is never in loving someone _ but losing your identity in the process. Because what happens when tragedy strikes? You__e left an empty shell. You__e left with nothing.

I knelt and locked the door. I locked the door locking the world and time outside. I stretched my body across the mattress and Saskia drew in close to me and placed her open hand on my chest, her mouth near my shoulder; her breath, my breath blew out the candle, and I held my lost Wanderess with tenderness until sweet sleep overcame us.