Love Lost:
They say that it is better
To have loved and lost
Than never to have lost
Or loved at all
Forgive me I cannot
Remember how exactly
They got their words to fall
But the gist it seems
At least to me
Is love, once lost is better still
Than love never borne
I am inclined to agree
For in their simplest terms
I feel the loss that they forewarn
Is love lost a love felt
One need only ask
Someone whose never heard
Love’s urgent call
Excuse me if I’m wrong
But love, even in failure
Leaves traces of it’s fall
The traces are enough
A reminder that it was here
A hope that it will come again
The chance to once more, feel
But a heart that love
Has never touched
That pain is real
And so the better of the loss
The better of the love
Cannot be more aptly known
Than to those whom love has never shown
