Does it really matter how much you love, <br />If it is not returned? <br />Or how hard your heart may beat for her, <br />If she your love has spurned? <br /> <br />Does it really matter how much you love, <br />If it is not reciprocated? <br />If with a few choice words she has, <br />The beating of your heart abated. <br /> <br />It matters not how much, you love someone, <br />But how much others love you. <br />That is the way (as all men know) <br />To keep your heart from being blue. <br /> <br />3/16/11 Alton Texas<br /><br />Juan Olivarez<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/does-it-really-matter-how-much-you-love/