Eternal Paradox

Man of my affection...did you hear?

Were you aware that you, in fact, are my biggest fear?
There is a purpose behind the hardening that I have committed of a vital organ within my body 
As the shell has began to break at a pace I cannot keep up with
I find fear in the fact that your voice told my mind what my heart forgot to mention
As I began to know the incapsulated portions of feelings tightly raveled 
Where these fears provoking passions and portions began consuming a mind wiped clean of anything of the sort
Deep within there are passages: shackled and chained
There was complexity in such a lock placed so strategically within me
But you, you held the key
Falling deeper and deeper into a place so dark and untouched my own mind has ceased to visit
Yet you have held that key so tightly in your grasp that your fingerprints know it by memory 
That place...it knows you by memory
It knows you by name far quicker than my mind ever will 
Because there is something magnificently terrifying about you becoming a part of me
And I becoming a part of you
And us becoming "we"
And you, looking at me, only to find yourself complete
But if you are going to fall, if you are going to jump, I want to come too
Searching caverns of the unknown 
Reaching depths far surpassing my own immediate comfort
And oh, oh how you know how terrified of depth I can be
Funny, how my biggest fear can extinguish all others
How petty the vastness of depth can be in comparison to the vastness within you
"Perfect love casts out all fear"
That's what they say, right?
Finding comfort in my fear is a paradox I will eternally hold tightly
So hello, man of my affection 
My greatest and my deepest fear
You are my favorite contradiction
My eternal paradox
This poem is about: 
Me

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