No-one wants second-rate love <br />Somewhere in the middle of <br />Genuine feeling and hate. <br />No, but secondhand love is <br />A different state. <br />It's had first-time around <br />To get grounded in giving, <br />And if been allowed, to have <br />Founded a bastion <br />Of caring worth sharing <br />When another heart now <br />Makes the right sound. <br /> <br />It can be beautiful. Often <br />Offers a tender dessert <br />Of hard learned charm, so <br />Give me the wiser, experienced arm <br />Of a lover who bravely turns, and <br />Takes on loving again. <br /> <br />In the fight for creating <br />Delight in this life <br />We need never depise anything <br />Under the guise of <br />Secondhand love. <br />Exerting more willingly now it implies, <br />Let's undertake that. <br />As long as we know <br />Such devotion worth showing <br />Is ever the sort of true love <br />Needed, no matter <br />How many rounds we all go.<br /><br />Fay Slimm<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/secondhand-love-2/
