Release

release me
from the arbitrary prison
of conditional love

it dims
the candle
that inlights
my heart

at selective moments
when I’m irked
or tired

when my patience
has wandered off

when my collective beliefs
becloud
the yearning
of my soul

to love
without the binding
nanosentences
that damn

her or him
or they
into exile
far from me

to love
presently
within
the candlelit orb

is to unjudge
and undam
a stream
of blessings

for us both