Poetry
A soul can be washed away with the rain.
I gave myself. You gave heartache.
Love can be left alone with its pain.
What I wanted left me regret.
If love is right, why was I wronged?
I sought to be your heart's desire.
You besmirched where I belonged.
Your choice quenched our love's fire.
Now I'm left with a scar of that past,
sorrow proportionate to my passion.
Joy is dead. A shroud has been cast.
My heart feels dreadfully ashen.
Our union should've been our own pinnacle.
But I'm united with my own grief.
Your sin left me feeling so cynical.
Your sin left me on my life's reef.
If one should want my affection
I'm sure fear would make me flinch.
I can expect the coming rejection.
I will be left in another's lynch.
© 10-31-09
Note: This is directed at no one. This is written from no particular person's viewpoint. It is about how one's love can be met with a form of abuse, whether in the form of emotional or physical abuse, desertion or infidelity.
Those who have suffered such are left with cynicism, fear and the seeming impossibility to trust again. For them, love will be met with heartache.
Being in a Ministry for Single people I have become aware of many who have endured what I attempted to give a voice. This is my attempt to see it through their eyes, to feel what they have felt and are feeling. I chose to see how their experience with love, being returned in such a way, is as wrong as a lynching.
My hope is that this does not mock their sorrow, but honors it.
For those who have abused love so:
"Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good." - Romans 12:9 (NKJV)
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