If only Love were an exaggeration: <br />a fantasy that solely exists in the minds of fools, <br />or a nightmare that just the damned must dream.. <br /> <br />If only Love were a dramatization: <br />a play that disappears once its curtain drops, <br />or a book children read before they go to bed.. <br /> <br />If only Love were a punishment: <br />a torture that the simplest are forced to endure, <br />or a death sentence given to the weakest of man.. <br /> <br />Maybe then I would be able to live: <br />to wake up each day without tears, <br />or lay down each night without emptiness.<br /><br />Deana Rode<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/2004-if-only/
