When love becomes affliction, <br />there's not much one can do. <br />Despite the way you don't love me, <br />I'm still deeply in love with you. <br /> <br />I am the wave and you the rock, <br />against which I must break... <br />again and again the crushing jolt, <br />of pain I continue to make. <br /> <br />Once again the long retreat, <br />to safety far from shore... <br />and then again, I don't know why, <br />the long trip back for more. <br /> <br />Perhaps it's for the nostalgia, <br />or to reap that which we sew. <br />Maybe it's just pure hope, I hope, <br />that won't let me let you go. <br /> <br />Perhaps it is the need to try, <br />for those who might depend, <br />on who we are and what we do, <br />for whom this should not end. <br /> <br />What need do I have within me, <br />a certain defect in my heart? <br />To sense there is no greater whole, <br />for which you are a part. <br /> <br />What lonley choice that only I, <br />be served by love in vain? <br />What fear of giving up this love, <br />makes me sure I must remain? <br /> <br />I've searched for all the answers, <br />I've dug deep within my soul. <br />The certantity of my love for you, <br />is all I know for sure, I know. <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright (c) 2007 Shelly Price <br />All Rights Reserved<br /><br />Shelly Price<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-love-become-affliction/
