To Thine ownself be true, myself <br />my life, my emotion. <br />Of all love lost, or to the unreachable <br />love out on a limb <br />Unable to climb to quite as high of <br />expectations those before have set <br />settlement has it’s own rewards, <br />although, the soul remembers all <br />of those you have chosen to loose. <br />The ability to love is a great gift, <br />but to really give love, that is an art. <br />Those in receipt of it are touched to <br />the soul of their very existence. <br />Love if it is true by given emotion <br />will leave its mark regardless whether <br />it is reciprocated or lost. <br />It will burn into the soul and be there <br />throughout their existence.<br /><br />Helen Bridges-Williams<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-thine-own-self-be-true/