LOVE TRIES

LOVE TRIES

Love tries its hardest to be valiant, to be forgiving, to be kind,
Love tries to always hit the target, Cupid draws his bow in time.
But love falters on the altar of pettiness and greed,
When lovers chance to differ on their wants and on their needs.

Love tries, a gallant foot soldier, to always fight the good fight,
To see the other’s point of view, to strive to make things right.
But love it fails so miserably, we stumble and we fall,
Dangling on the building ledge, love finally hits the wall,
And falls from grace like a lead balloon, just watch as it deflates,
The stress and strife of earthly life, gets in the way and complicates.

Love tries with its best and brightest colors, to charm and to beguile,
Love wears its false eyelashes, it winks at you, it wears a smile.
But in the end love topples hard, worn down by grief and pain,
A lonesome prairie brush fire, a tropic hurricane.
Love tries to hide astonishment, when bitterness raises its ugly head,
But gets caught up in selfish dreams and fickleness instead.

Love tries hard to right its wrongs, to see so clearly through the glass,
To forge ahead with newfound grace and to outrun the lonesome past.
Love comes so close to finish last in life’s amazing race,
Poised alas to crash and burn in a deadly high speed chase.
Love tries but seldom claims the prize, it’s a gamble at its best.
Love rises like a river, but careful when it crests.

Love tries, but lost in expectations, love is bound to fail.
Unless we try with open eyes to on its ocean sail.
Love tries, but soon divides, like an angry cancer cell,
Like a jellyfish upon the beach, like a crab emerging from his shell.
Like an octopus with tentacles, it strangles and it suffocates,
Love tries and vehemently denies, the thin line between it and hate.

Love tries, but in the end, only the strongest love survives,
Love tries, but soon it slowly dies, stranded until help arrives.
And help it always comes too late, such is life and such is fate.
Love tries but soon its muted cries sink beneath its crushing weight.

-Bruce Potts
Copyright 2011
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